HD Install :: DSL newbie install on P166 fails

Have tried setting up the partitions as ext2 (and also setting up using mkswap and swapon to set up the swap partition when using one). But no success. Is the install issue a red herring, since I get the same error message when trying to boot from CD.

Have not yet tried using a boot floppy - are you trying a network install or will your lappy not boot direct from CD?

Hi, DiSmaL,

I did a network install via floppy, since I have no cdrom. I've made progress, though.... check my most recent posts in my own self-started thread to see how far I've gotten via script-wrangling.

At the moment, my problem is that xwindows won't load for some reason. I suppose it could be a RAM issue, in which case I will look for other GUIs...

Ciao,
Dellengwyn

Thanks, that's helpful. You say you created the /ramdisk/tmp directory manually and that worked. Can you tell me how to do that?

Sure,

From my booted floppy's file system (probably like the CD's), I did something like this:

cd /ramdisk
mkdir tmp

Then, I went back to /usr/sbin and re-ran the script.

BTW, I have made slightly more progress with the xwindows problem by plugging a PS/2 mouse in and now the startup sequence gives me more options. Also, no error messages. The xwindows load still stalls, but only with this message:

Loading us.kmap.gz

(note that I am in the directory where this file exists, so you don't see the full path)

I think I'm close, and so will you be when you do what I did and manually create the directories and mount the drives that the scripts are looking for. At least I hope so!

Dellengwyn

Oh, and .... duh....

I also activated a leftover 64MB partition as a swap drive. Prior to attaching the mouse, this caused some progress with xsetup.sh, as well. xsetup.sh is the script that seems to set up xwindows for launch.

Dellengwyn

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