[Rule-list] 486 ftp install complete!

[Eugene Wong]

YAY! *WE* DID IT!!! Hi everybody.

Well, I figured out what the problems were. In no particular order, they 
were:

1.) When I tried to seperate the scripts into different parts, I needed to 
do a pivot_root. It was difficult for me to figure it out, but I managed to 
get to work.

2.) /etc/lilo.conf wasn't being copied properly.

3.) rpm --initdb needed to be run once and only once.

More good news: I found out that there many rpms in base_packages that don't 
need to be installed, just to get the system to boot. For example: 
pci_utils, eject, etc.

It took approx. 2 hours, plus the time it took to figure out what went 
wrong. I think that I'm going to make it download a few of them at a time, 
and install them from there. Also, I added a line to one of the scripts to 
delete the rpm after it has been installed. I need to find a way to make 
sure that it has been installed, before deleting, but for the most part it 
works okay.

Total amount of disk usage for 99 rpms: 231662 KB.

I have 229962 KB left over. Once everything is working, I'm going to install 
XFree86.

I used Slinky 0.2.3. The last 2 versions seem to have problems with loading 
the ne.o module.

I'd like to make a customized disk2 to have several stage scripts: 
stage_1.sh, stage_2.sh, stage_last, etc.

Any questions?


Sincerely, and with thanks,
Eugene T.S. Wong

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