On Tuesday 03 June 2003 22:44, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings again Richard and I've found something that I'm hoping is > --IT--....
Firstly, i cant remember if we started this as a personal matter, however i have CC'ed this to the linux-newbie list, i saw some other mails with the same header so i am sure i am doing the correct thing. > > My mind is like Jello after an afternoon with this so forgive me if I > say something really stupid: > > I bought another IDE drive and fitted it to yet another machine.. > Using Slack 8.0, 2.4.5 bare.i bootdisk and color.gz all seemed well > as the CD was found; partitions setup, etc.. Selected "a" only, menu > mode and then got the dreaded screen again "Your source device cannot > be accessed properly." > > This time however I RTFM the rest of what it said. Dumbo me, before. > It said to be sure the Slackware distribution is mounted on > /var/log/mount/slakware... Of course the drive was mounted properly > BUT the CD I have has the packages in the directory slackware. After Something wrong here, my slackware-8.1 cdrom obtained from a mirror site of slackware.com so its a slackware disk period. I booted my machine a 650Mhz PIII machine with slack 8.0 bare.i and color.gz disks, please NOTE, slack 8.0 boot disks. After doing the normal thing, fdisk(ing) typing 'setup' i get the dialog install program just like one expects. I can then add swap, choose a partition to install on and let setup 'automaticly' mount my cdrom located on /dev/hdc. It gets mounted in /var/log/mount "thats it" no slackware directory to be seen, AFAIK its always been that way. > all these years Patrick has decided to change the "normal" directory? > /Or/ perhaps when the distribution was made this happened somewhere > along the line. Dunno.. Not as far as i know he has'nt. At least not as far as 8.1, however i cant comment on slack 9 as i did not install from an iso image i installed from HD, i simply ftp'ed the directory's a thro' y . > > I, actually, noted this all along but never gave it a 2nd thought.. > > The problem now is: How in the hell can I go round this?? What i ask is the following, if you mount the CD on another running linux machine, what is the dir structrue after the mount point, you should see; "slackware" period, in otherwords if you mount the cdrom under /mnt you should see; /mnt/(a lot of files and directorys) and one called slackware contianing dir's a, ap, d, e, so on and so forth. Another quiestion is what happens if you give a path to "setup" and mount the cdrom manually. ?? > > Not having the actual CD I have in my possession no one could have > possibly known about this except ME... > > Do I have to copy all the files from that CD directory to the HD in > the 'slakware' directory and then install from there?? Maybe this is > what you were talking about before.. I'm getting too old methinks. > At least I'm sure learning more and more. You certainly can do that yes, there is only the need for the contens of the slackware directory to be copied to the HD no need for all the help readm's and so on in the topdir of the cdrom. If all esle fails i could even send you a copy of my cdrom per POST, but i dont really think that is nessasary at all, i have a small inclination you are doing something fundementally wrong. > Tomorrows another day, eh? Vy 73, > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18) > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable > . -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
