Re: trouble installing 2.2rev0a on a pc164lx
Sorry, I wasn't clear at all in my last message. When I said I was able
to get the installation started, I meant I was able to complete the
installation.
After I completed the sucessful installation, I went back
and tried to get the root file system on the installation cd to boot (just
because it was annoying me that I couldn't) and was still unable to get
the root file system on the installtion cd to work.
Anyway the short of the story is that based on your suggestion I was able
to complete a sucessful installation and I appreciate you
suggestion. Also, I appologize for the ambiguity caused by my last post.
Cheers,
Mike
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, scr wrote:
> Michael Kane schrieb:
> >
> > Stefan,
> >
> > I was able to get the installation started by booting the kernel from the
> > installation cd and the root file system from a floppy disk. However,
> > the root file system still does not seem to work and I was not able to
> > find it listed as a bug. In any case, thanks for the help.
>
> Did you try it using another floppy? Or even a third one?
> Just to be sure that a faulty floppy isn't causing your
> problem.
>
> How did you create the root floppy? Using dd?
>
> Did you try to boot from hard disk, from an extracted
> root image (that would be root.tgz)? Well , for that
> purpose another, already working Linux installation on
> your machine would definitely help (to create a ext2fs
> partition and to extract root.tgz to there). I could only
> boot into the installation this way if the extracted root
> image is in the root directory of this ext2fs partition.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan Schroepfer
>
>
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