"Robert Hailman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote:
|
| >Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 4 Jun
| 98, :
| >
| >
| >> >I then deceided to use the normal fdisk to make the
| particions.
| >> >This seemed to work fine. The install proceeds , I
| format the
| >> >partitions, I select virtually everything to install,
| and at the point
| >> >where I guess it should start copying the stuff from
| the CD, I get the
| >> >following error
| >> >
| >> >"Mount failed:Invalid argument"
| >> >What am I doing wrong? How do I get around this?
| >
| >> If you have chosen to mount the dos partitions, you
| will get a problem
| >> (Linux can't read fat32). I don't know if this is after
| where you are or
| >> before, because I haven't installed in the last few
| months :)
| >
| >Thanks Robert, you hit the nail on the head :-)
| >I now get as far as installing everything & then I have
| to say where
| >the boot stuff must go. If I choose my either of of 2
| hard disks I simply
| >get an error. (I assume because of fat32 partitions). I
| am happy to boot
| >linux using a floppy disk but I don't get given the
| option to do so.
| >
| >How do I make a boot disk to fire up Linux, I now have it
| installed with
| >no way of firing it up :-(
This is not as difficult as you think.
Simply boot the computer with the RedHat boot/install floppy.
When you are greeted with the menu, the bottom of the screen will have a boot
prompt
(ie "boot: ") (Assuming RedHat 5.0).
At this boot prompt simply type "vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1" (If linux is in the
hdb1 partition of the second hard drive)
Hope this helps.
Regards
Michael
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