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Re: dinstall stuffed?



Dave Cook <davecook@wt.com.au> writes:

> After getting a suggestion from Martin Mitchell to try and manually
> install everything after manually mke2fs and mkswaping the appropriate
> partitons.
> 
> I mounted /dev/sda1 on /target and turned the swap partition on.
> 
> Went to install the kernel (also tried install base system), and get an
> error saying that there is no root filesystem mounted.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions, manual install without dinstall?

I installed everything manually when I installed Debian, only using
dpkg. Are you sure you have set /dev/sda1 as root in the bootargs?

I've always used kernels I compiled myself though, never tried the
Debian pre-compiled.

Tomas - tomas[@.]nocrew.org




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