Hello all, I've been running 0.4.4 on an old Pentium4 PC for so long without problems that I'm really not inclined to change but I have a bit of spare time so I thought I'd give 0.6.3 a try . . . .
Here's what I did: - 'took the astlinux-0.6.3-geni586.iso and burned it to a CD - put a 128Mb DOM in another old Pentium4 PC (who knows - it might run) - put a 128Mb USB stick in the usb slot (note: the kd was genkd'd on 0.4.4 so it contains a rc.conf) -put the CD in the drive and booted the default (astlinux live with usb keydisk). When it was up I logged in and ran astinstall Once I hit "OK" the messages were displayed very quickly and when I reboot without the CD the PC says there's no OS and I should put in a diskette. (I must say I would prefer a vanilla version of this install screen rather than the menu interface which hides all the error messages). I rebooted the CD and as far as I can see from /usr/sbin/astinstall once the DOM has been sdisk'd the hda is 'populated' from /oldroot. I had a look in /oldroot and it's empty. Is there any reason why the install doesn't dd an image file to /dev/hda rather than the tar and copy type? I was expecting that a full install would happen and even overwrite the old kd that it found. I like the kd idea and I thought that it hadn't been scraped. All help gratefully received! -Graham S. Jarvis- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
