On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:11:04PM +0000, Ben Thorp wrote: > 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
At a guess, I would say you haven't enough HD space. It's some time since I installed Slack on a 486, but I think it was on a 500M drive, dual-booting with Windows 3.1! I got it down to about 200M, but I don't think I was using X. Try installing only the A and N series of packages and see it that works. -- gav -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
