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Old 11-04-2009, 04:23 AM   #16
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Now you'll need to install a bootloader. To install LILO, boot from the installation CD and you'll notice that at the "boot:" prompt it'll have a little snippet about "how to boot your system in a pinch". So supply it with the device name of your drive to get your system up. Then mount your install cd and find the lilo package and use installpkg to install it. Then run liloconfig and follow the directions
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:27 AM   #17
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USB drive? Well either way, get the lilo package from a Slackware repository and get it installed.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:28 AM   #18
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Now you'll need to install a bootloader. To install LILO, boot from the installation CD and you'll notice that at the "boot:" prompt it'll have a little snippet about "how to boot your system in a pinch". So supply it with the device name of your drive to get your system up. Then mount your install cd and find the lilo package and use installpkg to install it. Then run liloconfig and follow the directions
I don't see a snippet, just "boot:", and I'm not sure what to put in.

I tried /dev/sda and /dev/sda5 (where / is)...
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:30 AM   #19
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USB drive? Well either way, get the lilo package from a Slackware repository and get it installed.
Am I to bring in the tar from a usb and try to untar it somewhere?
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:31 AM   #20
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Try boot: huge.s root=/dev/sda5 rdinit= ro
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:33 AM   #21
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Try boot: huge.s root=/dev/sda5 rdinit= ro
it says kernel not found, but there's an entry for huge.s in the unetbootin list, and I've booted it. It automatically gives me root.

Now what shall we type?
 
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Am I to bring in the tar from a usb and try to untar it somewhere?
Don't get the source code, get the prebuilt package, ending in "txz" or "tgz". You use installpkg. If you don't know what to do with these, I highly recommend reading up at slackbook.org on Slackware's package management.
 
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it says kernel not found, but there's an entry for huge.s in the unetbootin list, and I've booted it. It automatically gives me root.

Now what shall we type?
Hmmm...maybe you can't do that from the USB. If you could obtain the bootable installation CD, it would make things a lot easier. Either the DVD, or just Disc 1 of the CD set.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:41 AM   #24
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Hmmm...maybe you can't do that from the USB. If you could obtain the bootable installation CD, it would make things a lot easier. Either the DVD, or just Disc 1 of the CD set.
unfortunately there is no cd drive

Sorry I'm slow, still trying to figure out how to get this tgz off the other flash drive.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:45 AM   #25
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This other drive is a bit old and beat up so it sometimes doesn't connect right...

I'll try to stick it on the slackware flash drive.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 04:49 AM   #26
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This other drive is a bit old and beat up so it sometimes doesn't connect right...

I'll try to stick it on the slackware flash drive.
I wonder where a good place to stick it is. I tried putting it in casper, can't figure out where it'll show up. Did a search for it in / and no reply.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 05:10 AM   #27
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I don't understand....how did you install Slack, where did the packages come from? Over the network? If so, why not grab it from there?
 
Old 11-04-2009, 05:35 AM   #28
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Okay, so I found lilo in slackwares/a/lilo* and thought, okay... installpkg lilo*.txz. And it seems to have done something so that it brings up the bios menu when it didn't used to, but when I tell the bios to continue to default it gives me a blinking cursor.

What else was I supposed to do to install Lilo? Please forgive me, this is my first day to Slackware.

Somehow /boot is empty.
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Old 11-04-2009, 05:40 AM   #29
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I don't understand....how did you install Slack, where did the packages come from? Over the network? If so, why not grab it from there?
I just put the image on a usb via unetbootin. That's why I was finally able to find the packages for grub and lilo on the disk, after looking online for where they would be put.

Now I'm just trying to sort out what to do to after running installpkg.
 
Old 11-04-2009, 05:44 AM   #30
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is it perhaps just trying to install it to the (effectively) LiveCD? Is installpkg directory-sensitive?

[I need some sleep, I'll be back in a few hours]
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