🚀 go-pugleaf

Matthew Hyne wrote:
> 
> I have had some problems installing Linux
> I can't get either Slackware or Red Hat to work
> 
> I have a Pentium 100 + 24Mb + 200Mb HDD (for Linux) and EIDE CDROM
> 
> Slackware - I chose the IDECD boot image and COLOR root disks
> I boot off of the boot disk and then then I get the boot
> prompt.  It tells me to enter any additional parameters and/or press RETURN
> to continue - not to change disks yet.  Since I have nothing to give it I
> press return and it trys to load the ramdisk and gives errors.  I cant get
> past the boot prompt.
> 
> Red Hat - I created a disk that supports no SCSI, IDE CDROM, Other (NE2000)
> ethernet.  I boot from this disk and do linux root=/dev/cdrom ramdisk = 256
> to install my CDROM.
> 
> Now I cannot remember the exact problem but it mounted the root filesystem
> off of the CDROM and then just stopped doing anything - would not go any
> further.  The last message was something like
> VFS: mounted root as readonly (ISO ????)
> 
> What cannot I get any futher than the first disk - I have checked the disk
> images and they are correct for my machine.
> 
> Am I not doing something correctly ??? - I will try it again and repost what
> messages I get.
> 
> Matthew
Now first problem:  Are you using Slackware 3.0 if so have gunzip'ed the 
root files?  If you have don't, that could very well be the problem.

Second what you have done is tell linux the the ROOT filesystem is to be 
/dev/cdrom that is why you get the CD being the root directory.  Now the 
psuedo to correct the problem is "linux cdrom=/dev/cdrom".  There is I 
think an easier way of mounting the cd, when you get to the prompt type 
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom mount_point" where mount_point is the 
directory you want the cd to show up in.

	Wayne