Linux!? (fwd)
Greg Hankins
gregh at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jan 23 23:47:00 EST 1995
Can someone help this guy? I'm time-challenged.
Greg
>From gt1135a at prism.gatech.edu Sun Jan 22 18:28:24 1995
>
>Hello, you don't know me, but I was going through your most excellent web
>page the other day, and I happened upon you link to Linux. I had heard
>about it, and decided it was time to install it and give it a try. The
>following gives an account of my attempt at installation, so if you don't
>want to hear about it, just let me know who I should ask. Thanks.
>
>I ftp-ed all the faqs and READMEs I could find, as well as Rawrite, Gzip,
>and the contents of a1-a4 (this is is the slackware ver I am trying to
>install). I created a bootdisk and a rootdisk. After all that, I booted
>with the bootdisk and rooted (?) with the rootdisk. I got to the prompt
>("#") and I typed "setup". Oh, by the way, I am using umsds144.gz as the
>bootdisk, because I wanted to install linux to my DOS partition to give it
>a once-through before re-partitioning. Anyway, in setup, when it asks for
>source directories, I have tried everything under the sun, but it never
>works! My installation disks are in C:\LINUX\INSTALL as a1, a2, etc.. I
>tried "/linux/install", and "/dev/hda1/linux/install", and everything
>else, but it says "Invalid Directory". So I gave that up and tried to
>boot from floppy disk. That seemed to be working (during setup) until I
>told it to install. At that point, the program seemed to be doing
>something, but never accessed my floppies, and wrote something at the
>bottom of the screen too fast to read, and then returned me to the setup
>menu! What do I do? I have read all the help, and most of the help says
>"this help is probably not necessary" :). If you want some mo' info, let
>me know. Thanks again.
>
>---
>Dan Walther (felix) | "All consistent axiomatic formulations
>Georgia Tech Computer Science Major | of number theory include undecidable
>E-mail: gt1135a at prism.gatech.edu | propositions" -- Kurt Godel
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