Sorry for the awful pun. Following some instructions in an article over a LinuxWorld, I have been trying to install an old copy of Slackware, I think with the 2.0.36 kernel. The main reason for the old copy was because it was the only copy of Slack to hand. The reason for Slack was because I was wanting to install via NFS onto a CD-ROM-less 486. The machine in question has 8Mb RAM, and 2 162 Mb harddrives. I partitioned /dev/hda with 130 Mb for / and 32Mb for swap, and left /dev/hdb free for /usr. I mounted the install CDROM over NFS with no problems, mounting the SLAKWARE directory as instructed. Then I selected the package sets I wanted (A - Base, N - Networking and X - XFree86 [to run as an X terminal]). It made the pretense of installing, but didn't install _anything_, finally crashing install because it was trying to write to the new /etc/fstab but /etc had not been created. If you then create the /etc directory, it says everything is complete, but no packages have been installed.
Help! Any ideas welcome. Ben Thorp -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
