lingy@rs6223.ecs.rpi.edu (Danzig Frique) writes:



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>I seem to have problems installing Linux mcc-interim 0.96c
>i have mkfs my system as follows
>primary partition:
>/dev/hda2 4 megs
>/dev/hda3 64megs
>/dev/hda4 100 megs (extended partition)
>/dev/hda5 10 megs
>/dev/hda6 64 megs
>/dev/hda7 26 megs

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>all the mkfs -c went well, so did the /dev/hda5's mkswap
>the problem comes in after that when i tried the mounting
>on the readme.utils for installing it, it told me to mount it
>and it was mounted 

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>mount /dev/hda2 /root
>mkdir /root/usr
>mount /dev/hda7 /usr
>mkdir /root/usr/src
>mount /dev/hda3 /usr/src
>mkdir /root/home
>mount /dev/hda6 /home (but this part barfs, so i mkdir /home before i did it
>                       again )
>swapon /dev/hda5

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>And after i did this, i can't run the install-root program properly anymore 
>because it wasn't able to find the 'tar' 'uncompress' binaries when i did
>the mount /dev/hda7 /usr
>Also I have edited the above mounts to the /root/etc/rc using vi (which
>has a warning about not being to write to /tmp in the bottom) for the above
>moutings, and followed the way to make a bootable disk by coping the Image file
>to a formated disk (it managed to boot, but hangs after finding all the partitions )                                           

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>Could anyone who have done this before help me? Also is the way i partition
>it good? I have about 165 megs of disk space for linux, and was
>having a hard time deciding how much to give each directory/partition
>Also how do i get the thing boot to hard drive? it can boot, but never go
>to my hard drive nor give me the # prompt

Just to add more, I have also tried it this way,
mounting this way:
mount /dev/hda2 /root
mkdir /root/usr
mount /dev/hda7 /root/usr
mkdir /root/usr/src
mount /dev/hda3 /root/usr/src
mkdir /root/home
mount /dev/hda6 /root/home

But then I have to use both the interim disks (boot/utls) to start it up
all the time and the changes i did to the /root/etc/rc were never saved, and
if they were saved, i checked out the file and it has '# ' at the start of
the line put in and i never put it in. 8-( I hope to get this linux beast 
running soon, please give me some suggestions on what else should i do?

Dan