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[Ingraham, Ed]

>> Then I booted the notebook into RULE kernel and ran the installation. 
>> The only wrinkle was getting the i386 kernel installed off the RULE CD 
>> image.

>Interesting. More details on this, please?

Following are a couple of excerpts from my complete description. I will
email the entire description to you off-list, feel free to post it on the
website.

The slinky install script had to be modified to locate the kernel. Normally
it would have been on the cdrom or in a network directory. Since I copied it
to /dev/hdb1, I had to modify the script to make it accessible.

I edited the file
/mnt/hd/install/stage2/second_stage_scripts/base_install.sh which I just
copied to /dev/hdb1. I added one line as shown.

Before:
else
  if [ "$method" = "cdrom" ]; then

After:
else
  mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrom
  if [ "$method" = "cdrom" ]; then


When I booted slinky, at the first prompt I chose NOT to install. I had to
modify another slinky file before I could do the install. This file was
located in the RAMDISK and I had to correct it every time I repeated the
installation.
I edited the file /scripts/setup.sh as shown to correct path for stage2. I
wanted to mount the partition /dev/hda1 instead of the cdrom. Later I
ignored umount errors that this caused.

Before:
stage2="cdrom"
echo "Mounting ${CDROM_DEV} on /mnt/cdrom"
mount -t iso9660 $CDROM_DEV /mnt/cdrom ...

After:
stage2="cdrom"
echo "Mounting ${CDROM_DEV} on /mnt/cdrom"
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrom ...

Regards,
Ed

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