On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mike Keithley wrote about, Re: Slackware 7.1 text.gz foot disk:
> >On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Mike Keithley wrote about, Slackware 7.1 text.gz foot disk:
> >> Beware of the text.gz rootdisk in Slackware 7.1. It does not have SCSI
> >> device files and it seems some of the errorchecking code has been
> >> removed from the setup script.
After trying what you describe i think i have an answer for you, however a
question first.
Was there any problems finding your disks when you booted with the new
disks.???
I booted from a cdrom however i dont think its a question of which boot
medium one uses, if a device is not there then the device file is NOT
created, let me explain, i do not have a /dev/hda or hda only hda and hdd,
my HardDisk is a SCSI /dev/sda, i checked /dev right after booting i found
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 up to 10 which is correct, my disk has 10 partitions,
there was no /dev/hda or hdb and as a matter of fact no /dev/hdd either,
the only hdX was hdc my cdrom, hdd is a cdwriter.
So i belive you jumped the gun as it were, as the /dev/ entries are created
AFTER you partition the drive(s), or thats what i think, i could not check
that as my drive was partitioned before hand.
Would you like to comment on that.?
On another note my install failed 3 times at the same place, the F series,
(howtos), would you belive it, i got a dam sig11, and my CPU is NOT
overclocked.
Thinking cap time.....
> >
> >Could you elaborate on this, In the comming week i hope to find the time to
> >install 7.1 on my machine, i could check your problem as i have a SCSI
> >system here.
> >
> >1) Which bootdisk do you use.??
>
> The ai7xxx.s bootdisk.
>
> >2) What differances are found between color.gz and text.gz ?
> >There i mean SCSI differance not screen make up.
> >
> I'm afraid I don't know. I used the text.gz rootdisk because it is very
> easy to use with a braille display.
>
> In the text.gz rootdisk, there were no /dev/sd* device files. I mknod
> some and got SCSI access:
>
> mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
> mknod /dev/sdb1 b 8 17
> mknod /dev/sdc1 b 8 33
> mknod /dev/sdd1 b 8 49
>
> However, I found out that the text.gz rootdisk from my 4.0 slackware set
> worked just fine so that might be a much better wigdit to use.
AFAIK you cant use disk sets from previous versions to install a higher
version, i tryed that once but i got a polite message on the screen saying
you cant do that.
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