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Re: Installation Fun on SE/30



At 11:51 -0500 6/28/02, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
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?

Oh ok. Sorry. As I said before, I have never used or installed Linux in my life. So, I am drawing from my open/netbsd and solaris memory; I will slip a few times here and there =)

Anyway, since I have under 300MB for the system, I was planning, after looking at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/m68k/ch-partitioning.en.html#s-planning-use, to start with something on the lines of the Work_std task but with a bit more. I really do not know what to put in the machine, besides that X will not be installed. You see, the objective of this machine is to teach me the difference between Linux and the other unix flavours and lookalikes I have used. So, how much would it need, say, to show me how it differs from Solaris?

 > 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

Yep, I meant that. I guess that is what I get by being dyslexic. Too many keys on the keyboard ;)

BTW, I just wanted to add that once I changed "boot" to "root", all went well. So, I am pretty much on my way to complete installing woody in my Mac SE/30. =)


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