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Hello, I bought the linux debian distribution on cd,(workgroup solutions inc) but i have problems installing it. - i can't get the base system installed (cd or disks) - i can't use loadlin If anyone has some tips, please...
- My System: Abit pr5 motherboard 256kb plb cache (Intel VX) Intel 200MMX (actually 166, but remarked) 80 MB EDO non parity 2x8 and 2x32 regular 1.44 31/4" Fdd Western Digital Caviar 2210 2.1 GB EIDE 1st master Mitsumi FX120 12-speed CD-ROM IDE 2nd master Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (S3 Virge ) 2MB EDO PCI TRUST 10mbit (cheap NE2000 compatible PCI ethernet card) Soundblaster AWE32 ISA external modem
- What I did: The ulitmate goal is to have both W95 and linux on the same disk, and start linux using loadlin from a "config.sys / Autoexec.bat " menu. i have the following partitions : C:_ HDA1 _ PRIMARY _ DOS _ 1024MB (a) D:_ HDA5 _ LOGICAL _ DOS _ 504MB ---_ HDA6 _ LOGICAL _ LINUX _ 468MB (ROOT) ---_ HDA7 _ LOGICAL _ L.SWAP_32MB (SWAP) ---_ HDA8 _ LOGICAL _ MINIX _ +/- 4 MB (for installation only) Both hda1 and hda5 are fat16 partitions, on which win95 apps are situated
I want to boot linux using loadlin, but always when I use loadlin kernel root=/dev/hda6 initrd=root.bin
or actually with any kernel or bootparam, linux says
" kernel panic : VFS: can't mount root " (or something)
this is a dead end (for me. at this time)
how did i get the linux partitions? Ofcourse installing with the boot-,root- and base disks is an option, altough it wasn't the goal. Installing by this worked pretty well actually Creating the partitions as above, Preparing Swap- and linux partitions, all ok But then installing the base... The installation program has the ability to install from CD. my CD is /dev/hdc, but when linux searches this one for a cd, it says that there is a cd present, but it's the WRONG one installing other modules is of no use while mitsumi is none of them. Installing from disks doesn't work as well with rawrite2.exe, I copied the images of three files called 1440_bas, 1440_bas.000 and 1440_bas.001 to disks (which should work)
but, after identifying the disk, linux said: "DISK ERROR" then I used other disks, formatted them, copied the images etc.. every time a disk error on the first disk. (repeated this joke for +5 times with different disks) so.. I'm stuck
- My Questions : Do I have the wrong CD? (Workgroup solutions Inc. Debian 0.93 R6) How can I install the mitsumi.o module, where actually, and will this work? (my cdrom has already been recognised as /DEV/HDC) Am i doing something wrong with the base disks, or , maybe, are the images of these disks copied on CD incorrectly ? What am I doing wrong with Loadlin?
ps You may have noticed my thoughts about having the wrong cd; some clues: - There should be a file on the CD called PARAMS.DOC (bootparams for loadlin.exe) but it isn't there. - The msdos Tools are incomplete; there are no utilities to Un-Tar files, (for example modules.tar) I can only read this file with WinZip but i can't add extra (mitsumi) modules from the driver disk which i had to download
I do hope somebody can help me out! Thanx for reading anyway
Dirk Maat |