[Rule-list] New installer / bootdisk

[Devon]

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On Friday 08 March 2002 10:23 am, Gordon Buzowetsky wrote:

> Sorry Devon...no joy.  Can't make the transition to the second
> floppy...complains about BOGUS sector sizes, can't find filesystem, and
> the cdrom can't find the cd.

Try inserting a floppy, and run mke2fs /dev/fd0
Then mount the disk, and copy rpm.gz to it. 
Either that or try some new disks. I had no end of trouble when using 
some disks I had laying around. I bought new disks and have had no 
trouble since. Chuck Moss posted some info on salvaging old disks as well:

setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 1440/1440
fdformat /dev/fd0
mformat a:

The installer should have no trouble reading a dos file system, so you 
might give that a try.

As for mounting the cd, if the drive is old or non standard, the kernel 
may not have support compiled in for it. I'm working on using a modular 
kernel next, so that may help somewhat. Even when it is found, several 
attempts are made to mount it. You'll see several warning/error messages 
before it gets mounted. I need to specify the file system type in the 
script, which should make most of that go away.

> Could it be because I'm editting the setup.sh to suit my drive
> partitions? I tried a couple different floppies...tried with 16M and
> then just let it run through normally.   

Make sure you also change the second stage script and the reboot script. 
/scripts/second_stage_scripts/base_install.sh
/scripts/initial_reboot.sh
to point at the proper hard drive.

I'm planning on having the script ask interactivly for a device to 
install on, so in the future editing the script to point at the proper 
device won't be necessary.

It's still rough and very much alpha quality. I'll refine it more in the 
next week or so.

- -D

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