"Del Campo, Damian" wrote: > > Thanks to those who've helped. > > I think there must be something wrong with my CD ROM, I can install from > floppies without problems. After the "partitioning" section, the "install > Linux" section allows for varoius media but when I choose CD ROM nothing > happens, ie the light doesn't even come on and you can't hear/feel the CD > spinning, however doing a probe-scsi from the PROM and during the SILO > initialisation, you can see the CD ROM detected. > Either way, I'll get it happening off the floppies and then try and figure > how to do it from the CDs. Or if there's some way of installing all the apps > from the install CDs once the actual system is set up, then I'll do that. I > can't be stuffed hand installing Gbs worth of software. > > One more question, why is there a /boot mount ? Admittedly I've only ever > used RedHat before so maybe this is standard but I've never seen it. > > Anyway, thanks people for the help. > > Damian Del Campo > Software Engineer, SAGRN Project > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Well, for some reason my un-subscribe did not work. I am still on the mailing list. I'll take it as a omen for now and un-subscribe later. The /boot directory holds the kernel (vmlinux-<version>) and system map (System.map-<version>. It does exist under RedHat, but it is not requested to be it's own partition during the installation process. RedHat will put "/boot" under the "/"(root) partition unless you create the "/boot" partition. Oddly, Debian has the symbolic link vmlinux in "/"(root) and not in "/boot" like RedHat and other Linux distributions. It makes no difference for this is really all sorted out in the silo.conf (or lilo.conf for PCs). I will attest to some of the responses concerning the use of floppies; many SS2's do have crappie floppy drives and the installation can be fustrating - but it can be done (I have done it). You may want to obtain another Sun compatible internal (or external) CDROM (some of the old SCSI Toshiba CDROMs do well.). --J
