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 > >
The other options is to be doubly sure you selecting the right location when it asks you where the files are. IIRC, when it asks which disk sets you want, it hasn't yes checked to see if there is a source available. But if you get to the stage of choosing individual packages, then it should have found the install source ok. --gav -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
