From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA115045 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA40060 for linux-list; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA43047 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:08:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparc.life.nthu.edu.tw (life.nthu.edu.tw [140.114.98.21]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id NAA27084 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:08:27 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (mjhsieh@life.nthu.edu.tw) Received: from mjhsieh.life.nthu.edu.tw (mjhsieh.life.nthu.edu.tw [140.114.98.106]) by sparc.life.nthu.edu.tw (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA11137 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 04:06:44 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980514040816.007302f4@140.114.98.21> X-Sender: mjhsieh@140.114.98.21 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 04:08:16 +0800 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com From: "Francis M. J. Hsieh" Subject: Re: Installer changes... In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.19980514032548.00730fa8@140.114.98.21> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk At 03:47 PM 1998/5/13 -0400, Alex deVries wrote: >On Thu, 14 May 1998, Francis M. J. Hsieh wrote: >> I'm sorry if this was discussed in the maillist. >> Should there be /etc dirctory after I cpio into my partition? I can't >> find /etc in my linux partition under installer prompt. >There should be a /etc in the ext2 file system after you run the >installer. As far as I know, there is no way to read an ext2 partition >from within Irix. Sure, I browse the partition in installer. >But it sounds like you're having problems even booting up... [deleted] >Hm. You might want to run it with 'init=/bin/sh' to skip init. Well, didn't work. :~( -- Francis Meng Juei Hsieh, Life Science Department, NTHU, Taiwan. Welcome to Life Science BBS bbs.life.nthu.edu.tw