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 DAA226321 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 03:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id DAA09123 for linux-list; Thu, 14 May 1998 03:02:19 -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 DAA86567 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 03:02:17 -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 CAA14298 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 02:58:24 -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 RAA15260; Thu, 14 May 1998 17:46:35 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980514174806.006ee2d0@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 17:48:06 +0800 To: Alex deVries , 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk At 03:47 PM 1998/5/13 -0400, you 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. This log is copied from my installation output. Is anyone having idea what's wrong with the installation? ---->15# ./installer /dev/dsk/dks0d2s0 SGILinux Installer 2.6 Alan Cox (c) 1997 - based on the MacLinux68K installer 2.6 Copyright © 1997 by Christiaan Welvaart mounted . cjwsh>MAKEDEV /dev doesn't exist, creating... making standard devices & console /dev/mem /dev/kmem /dev/null /dev/port /dev/zero /dev/full /dev/ram /dev/tty /dev/tty0 symlinking /dev/console to /dev/tty0 cjwsh>cpio root-be-0.04.cpio . . . [deleted] . . . D dev/vcsa56 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa57 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa58 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa59 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa6 (failed to create) D dev/zero (failed to create) D dev/vcsa60 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa61 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa62 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa63 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa7 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa8 (failed to create) D dev/vcsa9 (failed to create) R dev/need_disks_created cjwsh> -- Francis Meng Juei Hsieh, Life Science Department, NTHU, Taiwan. Welcome to Life Science BBS bbs.life.nthu.edu.tw