Re: Installer changes...

[Alistair Lambie <alambie@wellington.sgi.com>]

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.
> 
Alex,

It stops right at the file /dev/need_disks_created.  There are a bunch
of errors before this.  The /dev/need_disks_created file does not seem
to get written to disk correctly....the e2fsck cleans it up by the looks
of things.  I guess there is something about the cpio that the installer
doesn't like.

I tried extracting the cpio archive with Irix cpio and it seems fine.

Does that give any clues?  Just another thought...I'm running Irix
6.5beta.  Wonder if that could be causing a problem with the installer??

Cheers, Alistair


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