From: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs) Subject: Re: SLS won't install disks a3 and up; why not? Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:52:45 GMT
In a previous article, buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E) says:
>There really does seem to be something wrong w/ the SLS sysinstall, perhaps
>because of the new compress format? I don't know, but here is what happens-
>
>doinstall asks for diska2 and installs bin,faq, and shlibs. Then it asks for
>disks a3 and so on. It takes no install action on each, simply asking for the
>next disk. The boot disk it creates at the end will not work. Afterwards,
>commands such as ls won't work either.
This happend to me, so I installed my disks manually. I had my disks on my
hard drive, so I mounted it manually, copied all the a? disks to my linux
partition and wrote a short script to un-tpz and tar them. I then ran
the doinst.sh script and ran the syssetup with the paramters in the
doinstall script.
Here is something like what I had to do:
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt /* I have my SLS on my dos partition */
mount /dev/sda1 /root /* my linux drive */
cd /root
cp /mnt/linux/a/* . /* copy all the SLS a series files */
/* from my hard drive */
[then you have to gunzip and untar all the .tpz files]
look in the doinstall script for the correct parameters for calling
syssetup, since I don't remember them off hand. Also make sure to
call the doinst.sh script or your logins won't work.
I'm not sure why SLS is screwing up, but its part of sysinstall.
Hope I helped a little,
Kevin Jacobs
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