Re: dpkg and dselect
In message <[🔎] 199709260802.BAA07138@bossie.cow-net.com>, writes:
>Quick recap of my problem here:
>
Can you post what error messages you see? It would make diagnosis a lot
easier.
>The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. The boot
> disk refuses to
>boot up because, AFAIK, LILO isn't installed on the harddrive.
If the boot disk doesn't load, what do you see? Is it a bootable floppy?
Do you see any letters of the word 'LILO'?
> Changed the
>reference in
>SYSLINUX.CFG on the floppy boot disk to:
>
>APPEND root=/dev/fd0 ro
>
>from
>
>APPEND root=/dev/hda6 ro
>
I don't think that this has anything to do with lilo. Whatever is done with
lilo has to be written into the boot sector, so changing a configuration
file alone will have no effect.
>When prompted for the root floppy I used the file image floppy generated by
>ROOT.BIN......still
>the system won't boot.
>
>OK, I thought did I, no problem, I will just do a LILO manual install with t
>he LILO_19-2.deb
>file I grabbed off the Debian site and tweak it from there. Read the inform
>ation on dpkg and
>dselect in the debian and install docs.........booted the Rescue floppy and
>went into the shell.
>From what I can see, neither dpkg or dselect is included (or can be run from
> the shell) in the
>base installation setup.
dpkg is at /usr/bin/dpkg; it is part of the base system, and essential, but
I do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes
lilo is in /sbin/lilo
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