Re: [RULE] Kernel loading problems (CD-install)

[C David Rigby]

Dan, et. al.,
        Well, I've been enjoying myself playing with different kernels and the
slinky_development tarball to give Dan some things to throw at his balky
PC to try to complete a RULE installation.  But all good things often
need to take a pause, and I am leaving tomorrow for 2+ weeks of
vacation.

        Rather than use up the bandwidth here, the details and the files I
created are here:

http://flatrat.freeshell.org/RULE/

The text file ABOUT-THIS-STUFF.txt contains a description of the files
and some suggestions for using them to try to help Dan with his 486.  It
includes a section on how to install an alternate kernel as well.

I warn you now that it is pretty rough, with lots of "to do" sections,
and probably other glaring errors!  in particular, I know nothing about
creating RPM packages.

Have fun and I'll check back in a couple of weeks...

CDRigby
address@hidden

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 16:08, address@hidden wrote:
> Quick little update
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>     Before anyone (C. David Rigby) goes to any more extraordinary lengths,
> it might be in the intrest of effiency to read this first!
>     I have yet to verify the md5sum on the ISO CD, got a bit of reading to
> do o that one. I have followed a suggestion from Richard Kweskin, and
> I have test booted the CD sucessfully and checked the directories for
> the kernel and found them present.
>     I feel like an eejit for not realising this sooner, but I've managed
> to acess a command prompt, which might help manual kernel instalation.
> The installation balks when it goes to look for a suitable kernel, but
> it continues on to ask for a login and password. I simply used the the
> boot disk an chose not to run the installation and it started busybox
> command prompt! While I failed to mount the Linux partition file
> system failed with Tom's root-boot and with MuLinux, I had no problem
> mounting it with slinky's command prompt.
>     So I now have two questions: 1) where do I find literature on manual
> kernel mounting and 2) since I'll be doing this manually 'outside' the
> installer, do I have to do anything else to ensure that the install is
> completed correctly? I assume this will be different 'cos if I was
> fixing this problem mid-install (by using Alt+F2), once I was done the
> installer would just continue on as normal.... right???
> 
> Let there be no panic, and if there is to be panic, let it be organised
> panic!
> 
> Toodels!
> Dan
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