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- From: Emmett.Sauer@f215.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Emmett Sauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: HELP: SLS distribution install fails with bad magic number.
- Message-ID: <715304470.F00120@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:02:01 -0800
- Sender: Gatekeeper@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 44
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- DS> I am installing linux on my machine for the first time and am
- DS> Using the SLS
- DS> distribution. I am getting a bad magic number problem on the
- DS> 1st install
- DS> disk.
- First of all... the first two disks are Rawritten to Dos formatted
- disks.
-
- The first disk will call and mount the second disk....
-
- The remaining disks are all dos disks with the files dos copied to them,
- be sure and include the DISK# file on each diskette.
- DS> Where can I get more info on the SLS distribution? I know next
- DS> to nothing about
- DS> linux and its installation and am not sure how to go about
- You should gotten a README file with the SLS diskettes or files if
- downloaded.
-
- This README will guide through the installation.
-
- DS> my Boot manager and DOS partition. Doinstall tells me to do a
- DS> mkfs first. Which
- DS> wants me to do a fdisk first.
- DS>
- Well the mkfs and fdisk it refers you to are on the Linux disks 1 or
- 2...
- they should be self explanitory.
- DS>
-
- If you need more help you can contact my BBS (512)578-2720 and I will be
- glad to help you.... I went through this myself.. I know how you
- feel...
-
- FREQ 'LINUX' to get a current Linux files list.
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