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Re: Installation Fun on SE/30



On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:17:51PM -0400, Mauricio wrote:
> 
> This morning I went checking it and saw it said installation was 
> complete.  Kinda strange; I was expecting it to ask for stuff like 
> etc.tgz and so on, but it never asked.  Could it be that it figured 
> out where to get it?  I have enver installed Linux but in open/netbsd 
> it would ask which of those tarbals (etc.tgz, man.tgz, etc) I wanted 
> to install.  But, debian here did not.

Debian installs deb packages, not tarballs. Did you read the installation
docs?

> So, we reached the stage is asks to reboot.  I let it start (to 
> synchronize partitions) and then turn the machine off.  When I reboot 
> the computer, I go to Penguim and tell it not to use a ram disk and 
> tell it boot=/dev/sda5.  After saving that I let it boot.
> 
> It does not go very far.  The error message I get is:
> 
> Kernel panic : UFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> 
> What could be wrong?

You mean root=/dev/sda5? And you n key is broken, debiaN, penguiN.

Christian
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