"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> Usually loadling is started from a batch file. here's mine:
> @echo off
> c:\msdos\smartdrv.exe /C
> C:\loadlin\loadlin zimage root=/dev/hdb1
>
> zimage is a copy from your kernel (probably at
> /boot/zImage
> or /vmlinuz ) You do need to copy this file to loadlin's directory.
> root=/dev/hdb1 specify's where the linux partion is.
>
> Don't edit mtab. edit fstab with any editor you like,
> --
> FYI alien also works the other way round. eg installing Debian packages
> under Redhat.
> ---
> Shakespeare
> ---
>
> Okay, first, the loadlin. Can't find the right image to load! can't find
> initrd, or vmlinux, or zimage. I'm at a loss with that, still booting off
> floppy.
> floppy contains:
> ldlinux.sys
> message.txt
> linux
> syslinux.cfg
> should I put all in c:\linux, with loadlin? Which do I point loadlin to?
> ldlinux.sys? the linux main is hda2 and the swap is hda3 and the boot disk
> knows this and boots right in. Can I stick the boot disk onto "hda1" c:
> either in a directory or in root, with loadlin, and use it that way?
my guess would be the linux file is the image.
It's probably the biggest file on the disk so just check ( du * )
in the c:\linux directory put
linux
loadlin.exe
linux.bat
linux.bat:
@echo off
c:\msdos\smartdrv.exe /C
C:\linux\loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2
>
> second, how do I call up an editor, and how do I point it at fstab? I
cd /etc //go to the /etc directory
mc //start Midnight Commander (Norton clone0
F9->Options->Configuration //load the config screen
use internal Edit //ceck this box
goto the fstab file
press F4, this will load a edit.com like editor.
> still can't get anything resembling a GUI to load though I'm certain I have
> all the x packages installed. It almost seems as though it doesn't access
> the stuff written to hard drive, just keeps using the boot disk ramdrive to
> function.
type rdev it answers with the current root filesystem. For me that is:
/dev/hdb1 /
for you it should be:
/dev/hda2 /
if it is something else, like
/dev/fd0 / or /dev/ramdisk / or /dev/ram0
your still running from the floppy.
>
> aliens--- still way beyond me. I can't even figure out how to get back to
Don't now a lot about it. Just never need it.
> bash when I type "cat" and it gives me a blank screen with blinking
> horizontal line, one character large. Repeated multiple random keypressing
> gets me back eventually. Can't remember with function key it was or if it
> was a combination. I have terrible short term memory.
try, CTRL+V ESC CTRL+C = full screen reset.
> Ran into a bunch of that sort of thing. Would type name of something
> listed in a directory then be unable to do anything until random keys
> returned me to prompt.
???
> Oh well, at least I experiment?
>
> Shakespeare, loved it! thanks!
:)
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