Re: Install trouble
On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Tracy Sweat wrote:
> > > Now, unfortunately, after I install the base disks and go to configure,
> > > I get a box telling me I need to mount the file system or install
> > > the base disks. This happened twice. So I figured wiping the
>
> [snik -rsr]
>
>
> I had the new file system mounted when these errors occurred. I always
> go through the menu sequentially. It's possible that I missed mounting
> a time or two, but the last time this happened I went back to the
> mount option and the file system was shown mounted. Then I went
> back to the configure option and it still told me I needed to mount
> the file system or install the base system. Both of which I'd
> definitely already done.
I got this strangeness when I didn't have a nice fresh updated boot
floppy to feed the installation process, but rather an old, stale one
that it just kind of ignored instead of copying the kernel off of.
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