Subject: Re: install trouble: error at mount points (Wallstreet PBG3 233, YDL2.1)
From: Andrew Stout (astout2@swarthmore.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 18:53:11 MST
>I used the install-text-kernel22 option to install on my Wallstreet.
This worked. Thanks.
>I don't remember what the ramdisk setting were but they were
>straight from the bootx default prefs on the CD (copy the prefs file
>over). Worked like a charm,
No prefs file on the CD...probably need to run the installer for
that, and the installer wouldn't run.
>athough configuring X was an interesting experience. Tell it to
>boot into text mode when you get to that point, and then when you
>get everything else working you can reboot with the 2.4 series
>kernel and configure up X using the video=atyfb argument etc.
I did this, and it worked.
Still have plenty of configuring, learning, and perhaps
package-finding to do, but getting a functional, no-weird-X-problems
Linux installed has been a big boost of confidence. Thanks for your
help (and expect further new-to-admining questions soon enough...)!
--Andrew "finally!" Stout
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