I am trying to install rh linux *for the first time* and using FTP
download.
I have 2 HDD = 4Gig + 10 Gig and 32Meg ram on Celeron300.
One has Win98. the second hdd(10g)
(except 2gb) all is for linux. I partinined them as
/boot = 16M hdd2(all on the second harddisk)
/ = 2048M hdd3
swap = 64M
To start I download all "base {...}" files specified in base/comps file.
After a week long ups and downs the installer finally showed me the
"congratulations!" dialog.
Now when I rebooted I expected LILO but
"L 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 ...." was continuisly getting printed. *my MBR
has gone!!!!!*
(thanks! I had saved by MBR and partinioned records already as backups)
I tried the boot disk that was created and it took at least 10minutes
to load linux from the floppy disk and asked
"Runlevel:" :-(
In the docs I read "/etc/inittab" has the problem and
"boot: linux single" as a safe mode to solve such problems.
"id:3:initdefault:" should be added in that file.
The single user mode prompt was "bash#" and whoami="root".
But when I say "cat >inittab" it prints readonly file system.
"chmod 777 inittab" and all other commands print the same error!
So the first problem in LILO is not working. Should /boot partition
should be in my first HDD?
Then I cannot set the default runlevel until I get the access=RW. How to
do that?
Please help.
Thank you very much.
Vikas
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