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- From: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS won't install disks a3 and up; why not?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:52:45 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1jptruINNo0c@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1993Jan22.160506.16880@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Reply-To: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
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- In a previous article, buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E) says:
-
- >There really does seem to be something wrong w/ the SLS sysinstall, perhaps
- >because of the new compress format? I don't know, but here is what happens-
- >
- >doinstall asks for diska2 and installs bin,faq, and shlibs. Then it asks for
- >disks a3 and so on. It takes no install action on each, simply asking for the
- >next disk. The boot disk it creates at the end will not work. Afterwards,
- >commands such as ls won't work either.
-
- This happend to me, so I installed my disks manually. I had my disks on my
- hard drive, so I mounted it manually, copied all the a? disks to my linux
- partition and wrote a short script to un-tpz and tar them. I then ran
- the doinst.sh script and ran the syssetup with the paramters in the
- doinstall script.
-
- Here is something like what I had to do:
-
- mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt /* I have my SLS on my dos partition */
- mount /dev/sda1 /root /* my linux drive */
- cd /root
- cp /mnt/linux/a/* . /* copy all the SLS a series files */
- /* from my hard drive */
-
- [then you have to gunzip and untar all the .tpz files]
-
- look in the doinstall script for the correct parameters for calling
- syssetup, since I don't remember them off hand. Also make sure to
- call the doinst.sh script or your logins won't work.
-
- I'm not sure why SLS is screwing up, but its part of sysinstall.
-
- Hope I helped a little,
-
- Kevin Jacobs
-
-
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