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Vi Nham (vnham@socs.uts.EDU.AU) wrote:

: Hi everyone,

: I really really need help.

: I am new to LINUX, and I have read the FAQ but I cannot find a solution.

: I purchase a copy of "Unleash LINUX" book, and thinking I could learn
: or get more information about LINUX.  Unfortunately, I cannot even get
: pass the first stage of the installation.  This book comes with one
: CD (it has Slakware 2.2 with Xfree86 on it).

: The problem I have is...

:    After the bootup, instead of getting this message

:    Slakware login:

:    I have,

:    (none) login:

: I try to ignore the different and login as "root".  I got a "#" prompt
: as expected, but then I simply cannot do anything from this point on.
: That is, "fdisk" or "setup" command is not found.

: My system configuration is
:    486-33 with 16Mb, SBPro, Ne200 network card, Tseng ET400 (not Local bus)
:    2 HD with 4 partitions (and thinking of using the last partition
:    for Linux), ie, the "f:" drive.

: I have copy the whole "Slakware" sub-directory onto the "f:" drive as well.

: Would someone suggest what have I done wrong?

: Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
: Vi

The first thing is -what sort of CD-Rom drive are you using and is it 
supported by Linux?? If it's some obscure no-name brand like mine, you 
may have troubles.

Secondly, as I'm unsure of how the bootdisk is setup with the CD-Rom 
version of slackware, I'm winging it here, but check some of the following

type "echo $PATH", or alternatively, type "set" and look at what the PATH 
environment variable is.

type "cd /sbin" and then do an "ls -l" and look for fdisk and setup. If 
they're there, you're laughing... use /sbin/fdisk and /sbin/setup to run 
them, or add /sbin to your PATH like such :-

PATH=$PATH:/sbin

do the same, and look in /bin and /usr/bin - but they should have been in 
/sbin...

As I said - I'm not sure where everything's supposed to be with the 
CD-Rom, but my next guess is that they're meant to be on the CD.

First, check if it's mounted - like this :-

type "mount" and look for something mounted on /dev/cdrom or something 
else that looks like your cdrom device. Note that /dev/fd.... and /dev/hd....
are floppy and hard-disks respectively.... Another point is that the 
filesystem on the CD is probably iso9660 which will also give it away.

If mount isn't found - try "cat /etc/mtab" and look...

If you can't see it mounted - and you have mount at your disposal, type 
something like...

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

substitute /dev/cdrom with YOUR cdrom device. If /mnt doesn't exist, just 

cd /
mkdir mnt

and try again... Now look for the files above in /mnt/sbin, etc

I think I've covered most things you could check. Email me if you have 
any probs and tell me what the above things produced...

Brett :)

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