slink: Which directory am I supposed to install from?
Hi!
On the official slink CD images, there are two different directories
from which an install can be tried:
/install with boot.bat
/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22 with install.bat
Both batch files seem to run installation systems that look alike.
From trying a few weeks ago, I think that I remember that running
/install/boot.bat yields a running system with kernel in
/vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36. I needed to mount the CD to install
the base system since /install doesn't contain the base*.bin files.
Today, I tried installing from
/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22/install.bat.
Installation went through fine, the kernel is /vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-scsimod. This time, all the install needed was in
the 2.1.8-1999-02-22 directory without needing anything else. However,
the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it can't mount
the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel (that is quite a
few KB smaller than the one installed by the install system from
/install) doesn't contain drivers for the NCR SCSI chip that my system
has.
Which directory am I to install from? Why does the other directory
exist? How can I make the disks-i386-install-System install a kernel
that actually works on my system?
Any hints will be appreciated.
Greetings
Marc
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