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Article #58581Re: slackware setup help!!!!
From: -*Binh*-
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
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> Dear sir or lady, > I have a big problem to install the unfriendly slackware. After I tried to use bare or icde > and rawrite a boot disk and used it to boot, it has the following stupid problems: > 1. It asked me to insert an RAM disk floppy disk. What the "HXXL" is that? And I just type return > then it give me a message: "corrupt" whatever. > 2. It finally stop booting and give me a very uncomfortable message: > Kernal panic: VFS:unable to mount root fs on 21:00 > For slackware u need 2 disks..one called the boot disk and the other one root disk (RAM disk).. boot up with boot disk then when ask to insert ram disk inter the root disk.. Now if you installed linux from infomagic CDs (6 Linux CDs yes 6 of them sell for about 25 bucks so get it save u lot of time downloading)...more infor check it at http://www.infomagic.com on infomagic CDs (cd 1) there is a program called lininst or something like that..it's a windows 3.1/windows 95 progs that automaticly create root and boot disk for u all u have to do is run it and follow its instruction...after a few minutes wola u have 2 disk ready to instal slackware :) Hope that help .. --*-*-*-*-* Binh Nguyen -*-* Email: u922992@student.canberra.edu.au -*-*-* Universtiy of Canberra, Australia +--------------+ Homepage: http://natsem.canberra.edu.au/~btn | Linux Inside | -*-*-*-*-*-*-*Email: btn@natsem.canberra.edu.au-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,c51979dfdd4c54cf X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: -*Binh*- <u922992@student.canberra.edu.au> Subject: Re: slackware setup help!!!! Date: 1996/06/05 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960605185324.12955B-100000@student.canberra.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 158579469 references: <4o3jk5$lco@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: University of Canberra, Australia mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: aus.computers.linux