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From: Jason Bomers
Date: Monday, November 30, 1992 - 10:34 pm

HELP...

I am having some really wierd problems when trying to install Linux for the
first time using the SLS distribution.

First off, here is the configuration:

    386sx 2MB ram
    2 Quantum 105M SCSI drives with a Seagate ST-02 Controller.
    plain ol' VGA
    I am using patch level 5 of the SLS distribution.

Okay, here is what happened.

   1) removed all existing partitions on /dev/sda
   2) repartitioned entire drive as follows:
           device        start     end     blocks    type
           /dev/sda1       1      502       51203     Linux/Minix
           /dev/sda2      503     904       41004     Linux/Minix
           /dev/sda3      905    1005       10302     Linux Swap

       no problems so far.
    3) reboot.
    4) mkswap -c /dev/sda3 10302     /* to make swap space */
    5) swapon /dev/sda3
    6) mkfs /dev/sda1 51203
    7) mkfs /dev/sda2 41004
    8) doinstall /dev/sda1       then selected 2 for full base system.
    
     at this point, everytime it asks for another disk and put it in and
     press enter I get the following on the screen:
       [MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha. 8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=000]
       [me=0xf0,cs=1,#f=2,fs=1,fl=9,ds=19,de=224,data=33,se=2880,ts=0]
       No bmap support


     is this normal?

     anyway, I assumed that this was okay and continued with the install.
     Lastly, I inserted a freshly formatted disk and make the boot disk as
     it said to do.  Everything looked fine to me.  When I try to reboot the
     the machine, it goes through the normal boot/loading info then prints

         No bmap support 

      on the screen and hangs.  No disk access or anything, it just sits there.
      I can't figure this out and would appreciate any help anyone may have.

thanks in advance,
  -jason
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