Re: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh*
/dev/sda1 is mount on /target
/dev/ram0 is mount on /
/dev/hda is mounted on /instmnt
That's it.
does this help?
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Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any
shuleram@acm.msu.edu | blasphemous rumours, but...
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote:
> Amanda Shuler wrote (Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:49:46 -0500 (EST) ):
> |>umm.. no.. I'm alreayd installing from floppies. I can't install from
> |>cd-rom because the stander kernel provided with the debian install does
> |>not work with my system.
> |>Someone else on here had the same problem I had with an Adaptec AIC-7770
> |>and posted an ftp address where there was a bootable kernel that had the
> |>driver for this card already compiled in. I am using that kernel.
> |>I am beginning to wonder if loopback device is compiled into that kernel.
> |>
>
> wait a minute...now i remember. /instmnt *should* be the directory to
> which the installation is being done. assuming this, i think that
> /dev/sda1 (or whichever device corresponds to the partition on your
> SCSI drive where you want linux to live) should be mounted as
> /instmnt, not /dev/hda1. the error may be generated as a result of
> attempting to write to the cd-rom. at least i think this is what's
> happening.
>
> when you go to the console shell, is /dev/sda1 mounted anywhere?
>
> -alan
>
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