Sorry, I wasn't clear at all in my last message. When I said I was able to get the installation started, I meant I was able to complete the installation.
After I completed the sucessful installation, I went back and tried to get the root file system on the installation cd to boot (just because it was annoying me that I couldn't) and was still unable to get the root file system on the installtion cd to work. Anyway the short of the story is that based on your suggestion I was able to complete a sucessful installation and I appreciate you suggestion. Also, I appologize for the ambiguity caused by my last post. Cheers, Mike On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, scr wrote: > Michael Kane schrieb: > > > > Stefan, > > > > I was able to get the installation started by booting the kernel from the > > installation cd and the root file system from a floppy disk. However, > > the root file system still does not seem to work and I was not able to > > find it listed as a bug. In any case, thanks for the help. > > Did you try it using another floppy? Or even a third one? > Just to be sure that a faulty floppy isn't causing your > problem. > > How did you create the root floppy? Using dd? > > Did you try to boot from hard disk, from an extracted > root image (that would be root.tgz)? Well , for that > purpose another, already working Linux installation on > your machine would definitely help (to create a ext2fs > partition and to extract root.tgz to there). I could only > boot into the installation this way if the extracted root > image is in the root directory of this ext2fs partition. > > Regards, > Stefan Schroepfer > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
