Re: Basic Install Problem

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From: Nigel Edward Maddock
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00

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mhyne@rp.csiro.au (Matthew Hyne) writes:

>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.

I suppose your using the redhat distribution found on the Infomagic CD's?
The single CD version of Redhat is broken, but works if you use the 3 disk
install option (boot and two rams?)

>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 ????)

Yeah... sounds similar. Give that method a go...

>Matthew
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Nigel Maddock
nem02@uow.edu.au

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From: nem02@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (Nigel Edward Maddock)
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