Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Thu, 6 May 1999 19:42:20 -0600 (MDT)
Well.. the ftp method WOULD work if my theory is correct. Make sure you
chmod 755 EVERYTHING in instimage/usr/bin
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Carlos Antonio Perez wrote:
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> Dan,
>
> Thanks for the advice. Though, this does not seem to be the
> problem. I used the same image to install via ftp (mounting the image
> through a loopback device on the intel machine I mentioned), on a G3
> connected to our network. Just to be sure, I tried installing on the G3
> with the CD. It wouldn work: same problem.
> It seems that when I installed
> via ftp, the install-script loaded an image that contained pdisk (the
> macintosh disk partitioner that dates back to Mklinux), and when I
> installed from the CD it loaded an image that contained fdisk (the utility
> widely used on the i386 linux world). This seems strange since both the CD
> and the ftp server had the same image. Yet I thoroughly checked, using the
> shell on the second terminal.
>
> After reading your mail I checked the image. fdisk appears where
> you suggested RedHat/instimage/usr/bin , pdisk only (and fdisk) appears on
> misc/src/update_trees/initrd/usr/bin/
> and
> /misc/src/trees/supp/usr/bin/
>
> Both directories seem to be under valid instimages.
>
> What should I do? Replace RedHat/instimage/usr/bin with one of
> the other directories and remake the CD?
> Would this work?
> Thanks for past advice and in advance for any you may give.
>
>
> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Dan Burcaw wrote:
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> >
> > Carlos,
> >
> > Make sure that all of the binaries in RedHat/instimage/usr/bin
> > have execute permission. The permissions most likely didn't get preserved
> > when you downloaded.
> > Dan
> >
> > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Carlos Antonio Perez wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi. I live in Mexico. We have a terrible mail system, so I dont
> > > dare order a CD. Yet I need to install linux on 10 performas 6360s
> > > WITHOUT network capabilities.. So I decided to burn my own CD.
> > > I downloaded everything to a pentium running
> > > linux, and used mkisofs to make the image using Rockridge. Everything
> > > worked fine except that the install program is only capable of
> > > partitioning and installing to msdos formated disks. It would seem that
> > > the install script loads a diferent ramdisk.image (2nd stage) if it cannot
> > > detect a macintosh CD.
> > > My guess is I need to burn the disk with rockridge extensions AND
> > > with macintosh desktop files (desktop.db and desktop.df). Am I correct? If
> > > so, how can I acomplish this?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any advice.
> > >
> > >
> > > Carlos Antonio Perez Delgado
> > > NetAdmin CS.BUAP.MX
> > > carlos@cs.buap.mx
> > > PGP: hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:/"Carlos A. Perez <carlos@cs.buap.mx>"
> > >
> > > "Los verdaderos programadores solo programan en C porque es el lenguaje
> > > mas facil de deletrear."
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> >
> >
>
> Carlos Antonio Perez Delgado
> NetAdmin CS.BUAP.MX
> carlos@cs.buap.mx
> PGP: hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:/"Carlos A. Perez <carlos@cs.buap.mx>"
>
> "Los verdaderos programadores solo programan en C porque es el lenguaje
> mas facil de deletrear."
>
>
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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