Re: Problems with Frozen
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Uhm, how do you tell the doggone boot disk that you want to run fdisk from
> the menus? At that point you have no prompt ... remember, this is a CLEAN
> system, there is no fdisk (or anything else) on it.
In your explaination you explain that you are asked to create partitions
but returned to THE MENU. This leads me to believe you are at the
installation menu. The last entry on the menu will let you drop to the
console. At the prompt type "fdisk /dev/hda".
>
>
> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > > I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has
> > > no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda).
> > >
> > > It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is
> > > the low memory disk. This causes me a problem when I try to install, it
> > > asks me if I want to create partitions, I do, but it takes me right back
> > > to the menu, it will not launch cfdisk.
> >
> > Did you try using fdisk? It's not as attractive as cfdisk but it does the
> > job.
> >
> >
> > --Rick
> >
> > rickya@siservices.net
> >
> >
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> George Bonser
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>
--Rick
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