>Hi All,
> Its been two months that I am trying to prepare
>linux on a floppy.I am going for kernel on one floppy
>and rootfile system on the second floppy.My problem is
>that after inserting the second floppy when I get the
>login prompt and I enter the username as root and
>press enter the screen respawns i.e it again asks for
>username.To eliminate this I got a suggestion to use
>'tinylogin' instead of /bin/login .Tinylogin is a good
>concise utility available at lineo.Now after using
>this tinylogin I am atleast getting the password
>prompt after entering the username as root.Now as soon
>as I enter the root password it flashes an error as
>login[45]:invalid password for 'UNKNOWN'on tty1.This
>problem is bothering me since last two weeks and I am
>stuck over it.I have both /etc/password and
>/etc/shadow files.I have also tried it by removing the
>/etc/password and /etc/shadow files it gives the same
>error which means it(login or tinylogin) is not
>reading the these files at all.My etc directory
>structure is like this........
>pam.conf nsswitch.conf rc.d password
>shadow ld.so.cache issue wtmp
>hosts login.defs syslog.conf
>termcap inittab securetty
>profile HOSTNAME pwdb.conf
>
>I am using redhat 6.2 .If someone can send me the
>total installation process of tinylogin that may also
>be helpfull as it is not available since I doubt that
>too.
>Please suggest me wether to use login or tinylogin.
>Please help me out and suggest me what to do.As I told
What are you using for mingetty?
With tinylogin you you get getty, use it.
The problem appears to be due to library files. You need to copy some (dont
know name, I did all) file from /lib directory. But then it would not fit on
floppy.
I think rh6.2 can not be squeezed on 2 floppies.
You may try older debian (2.0 or earlier)
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web site - http://betacomp.com
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