>On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Mike Keithley wrote about, Re: Slackware 7.1 text.gz foot disk:
>
>> >
>> Yes, the setup script said I didn't have a Linux partition set up. I
>> did, though as /dev/sdb1. On checking /dev I found no sdd device files
>> at all.
>>
>> Although I used the cdrom to install software, I used the "tradiitional"
>> method of making boot and root floppies. It would seem booting via
>> cdrom give a root filesystem where the /dev/sd* divice files are present.
>>
>> >So i belive you jumped the gun as it were, as the /dev/ entries are created
>> >AFTER you partition the drive(s), or thats what i think, i could not check
>> >that as my drive was partitioned before hand.
>> >Would you like to comment on that.?
>> >
>> Since the /dev/sd* device files were't there in the root floppy, there
>> would be no way to partition a SCSI disk using that floppy. In my case,
>> fdisk would want /dev/sdb, which wasn't there. I got around this
>> problem by using an older (4.0) rootdisk.
>
>Like i said you jumped the gun, you possably missed the text written on the
>screen which said you "MUST" use either fdisk or cfdisk.
>
>I used the text.gz disk, first command after login was ls -al /dev/sd*
>Nothing, no device files concerning sda.
>I simply proceeded, one then gets the screen saying the above,
>i did 'fdisk' even tho' my disk was already partitioned, all i did in
>'fdisk' was use the "p" command, then "q"uit, then ls -al i got a full list;
>
>So the text.gz has to have fdisk or cfdisk run first, then the files are
>created from the output of fdisk.
>
Well now, guess I did jump the gun--sorry!
>On another note, did you burn your own cdrom, if so where did you download
>the iso image.?
>I got mine from ftp:/linux.tucows.com there was nothing strange about it,
>no errors when i burned the cdrom and it verfied ok, however it bombs out
>as soon as it starts to install the HOWTO's (cant remember the disk set
>letter(s)) its the series before gnome gets installed, it gave me ;
>
>child returned sig11
>file.? not in gzip format
>aborting from previous errors.
>
>It is NOT, i repeat NOT, a memory problem on the machine(s) yes i have tryed
>it on 3 different machines, thay all stop at the same place with the same
>errors, now the chances of a memory error on 3 different machines at
>exachtly the same place on a cdrom is, i would say about 1 million to one.
>
>Has anyone else encured this problem, i have never had problems with my
>cdburner, in fact i burned a copy of corel after slackware 7.1 and thats ok.
>
>I will give it one more try later on this evening, this time i will do a
>custom install instead of everything and leave out the HOWTO's.
>
>--
>Regards Richard
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
The CD set I use was ordered from Walnut creek software
<http://www.cdrom.com>.
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