Re: trinux first time

[Michael Taylor]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Stas Safonov wrote:

> Hello MATHIEU,
> 
> Thursday, September 02, 1999, 1:42:54 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Mfic> Hi every one,
> 
> Mfic> I've just downloaded the boot disk onto a diskette and reboot from it  my 
>laptop
> Mfic> ( version 0.62).
> Mfic> I got the trinux prompt, but the system complains about not being able to mount
> Mfic> the floppy !!
> 
> Mfic> EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommanded
> Mfic> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Mfic> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> Mfic> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> Mfic> cd: can't cd to /floppy/conf  ..
> 
> Mfic> What did I miss ????
> 
> 
> 
> Mfic> Best regards
> 
> Mfic> Christian Mathieu
> 
> I've got alike problem with 0.51 from Antonio Garcia
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - it couldn't mount root fs (it said
> what i try to read beyond end of disk!), so I load my RedHat and mount
> initrd through loop device (if you haven't linux you couldn't do
> this).
> Then i edit /etc/modules.conf (or which name it has) - just #-ed some string
> and umount, gzip and put it back on floppy. Reboot and it's work!
> 

This is a little unclear to me what you are describing to do.  What do you
mean by "just #-ed some string"?  I understand the mounting and
unmounting, just not that part.  And why exactly does that make it work
properly?


-Mike Taylor-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> If you tell me where you got 0.62 i'll try it on my Desktop and mail
> you results :)
>


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