[Rule-list] Successful slinky install on 486 with no CD

[hairylarry at deltaboogie.com]

Hi,

After I read Devon's scripts I saw the error of my ways. I did this 
procedure on two different machines, PC 14 and my 486. It worked 
both times.

As described in my previous email I have a hard drive attached at hdb 
that has the disk1.iso on an ext2 file system. I will test this with a 
dos file system later today.

i booted slinky and ran it normally until it asked if I wanted laptop 
support. Then I hit Ctrl-C and ran through the moutn procedure 
exactly as described before.

I edited base_install.sh changing the rpm path and removing only the 
mount cd query and the mount cd code. Then I ran base_install.sh.

When it finished I changed directory to /oldroot and did the pivot_root 
and chroot manually as shown at the bottom of setup.sh. This 
started with initial_reboot.sh and gave me a clean install.

Except hdb not unmunted. Easy to fix. I removed my hdb line from 
/etc/fstab and shut down again. Removed the hd at hdb and 
restarted. Everything seemed to be fine. Just like the install from the 
CD.

Thanks,

Hairy Larry


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