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Re: boot install from HD



> You should be able to make corrections without going
> back to
> the installation system. For example, network
> addresses
> in /etc/init.d/network (slink) or
> /etc/network/interfaces
> (potato).
> 
> But if you want to do it from floppies, you only
> need the
> first one (slink) or two (potato). You need to
> "Mount a
> previously initialised partition", and then
> "Configure
> whatever-it-was" to make the changes.
> 
> Apart from the network above, I can really only
> think of
> "Configure Base System" which only seems to affect
> /etc/timezone
> and the clock line in /etc/default/rcS. What did you
> get wrong?

Kernel stuff.  I didn't configure PCMCIA, and I need
some more modules. (i.e. PS/2 for my mouse) I can't
get the kernel source onto it to rebuild, although
that would be the really nice way to do it, until I
get a new modem and figure out why my phone line isn't
giving me a dial tone.

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