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Re: Slackware installation problems



Well,

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Peter wrote:

> 
> 1. loadlin is used exclusively from DOS. Was that what you were doing ? 
> If yes then you do not need a boot disk. Place the CD in the cdrom and 
> give the location of the kernel to the loadlin program (read loadlin.doc).
> Also be sure to give it the root as /dev/fd0 and ramdisk as parameters.

The command line I used is, as described in FAQ.TXT:

loadlin zimage rw root=/dev/ram initrd=color.gz load_ramdisk=1

It lead me to the same result as w/ floppies. Same result with all kernels
I used (the one I basically need is the bare.i, but I also tried a few
others). This result occurs with ANY root image i tried as well: rescue,
color, text.
 
> You will probably need the eide kernel. The second one works 
> (one of them). For root disk use rescue. 
> 
> When you wrote the image of rescue, did you do it as required (rawrite ?).

Of course. And I forgot to mention that on some stage I thought my floppy
is the root of the problem, so I used my old 1.2 MB drive instead of this
one, which is 1.44 MB, with the appropriate bootdisks of course.

> 2. Leave the hardware alone. It makes no sense to remove good things 
> (except SCSI controllers and network cards which may conflict during 
> installation), especially if the work.

I have no SCSI controllers on this machine. I do have a network adapter,
but I took it off and... still no change.

> 3. The CD is certainly not damaged. CDs have error correction. At most 
> you can get a file read error.

The master CD might have been damaged in some way, who knows...

> 3a. Tell us more...

Should I give up and install FreeBSD? It works, but I really prefer Linux
since software for Linux is much easier to find than for FreeBSD.

> Peter Lorand Peres
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Nadav