Help installing Linux.(doinstall fails)
Martin Visser
I,ve tried to install the SLS base system 99p6. I partitioned my 210 Maxtor
drive to half DOS and then added a 15M /dev/hda2 (type 81 Linux,Minix) and
10M /dev/hda3 (type 83 Linux swap). After writing to the partition table
and rebooting, I did a mkfs /dev/hda2 15504; mkswap /dev/hda3 4096; swapon
/dev/hda3.
After then running doinstall things seemed OK until it tried to
start installing a2,a3 and a4. The system only looked at the disks for about a
millisecond and then prompted me to insert the next one ( I was thinking
, Boy! this installation is quick). Finally I got the prompt for formatted
disk to make a boot disk. Thinking, I ahd finished, I attempted to boot this
disk to no avail. Of course during doinstall I got messages such as
"mv: command not found", "rm: command not found" and so forth.
I am guessing that my /dev/hada2 is not mounting and hence the file system is not
being transferred. I have
been trying to dissassemble "doinstall" as most erros seem to be redirected
to /dev/null.
One "error" I noted on booting is "WD8013 not found at 280 ". Can't the driver
find my disk controller? I have a TMC 486/33 motherboard with a VESA IDE
controller.
Linux seems to be able access the disk because the partioning worked and mkfs -c
works the disk out.
Please help me out , I would love to get Linux up and running.
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Regards, Martin
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