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Old 11-13-2006, 02:36 AM   #1
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Installation from a mounted ISO, doesn't copy files...


System specs:
PCU: P4 2.8GHz
RAM: 1GB
GPU: ATI RADEON X800 GTO (AGP)
Hard drive: IDE 76GB Maxtor... something
MOBO: ASUS P4S5553-MX

aka nothing fancy

UPDATE: Install worked when I used huge26.s instead of bare.i kernel!

Lay of the land:
-55GB NTFS Partition for WinXP (Primary, Active) (hda1 aka C:\)
-1GB SWAP Partition (Primary) (hda2) (too much maybe?)
-21GB Extended partition
----5GB Partition for / (hda5)
----5GB Partiton for /usr/local (hda6)
----5GB Partiton for /home (hda7)
----2GB FAT16 (VFAT) Partition holding CDs 1,2 and 3 (hda8)
----2GB FAT16 (VFAT) Partition holding CDs 4,5 and 6 (hda9)
----Ext2 partition eating up the remaining space (hda10)

Since I'm not too keen on reinstalling windows - again - I setup GRUB for NT and can chainload it from the NT loader (took longer than I'd like to admit)
I copied bzImage (from bare.i) and initrd.img to C:\boot and added the following lines to C:\menu.lst:
Code:
title Slackware Linux 11.0
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz

title Slackware Linux 11.0 Installer
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage rw root=/dev/ram load_ramdisk=1
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
and the following to C:\boot.ini:
Code:
C:\grldr="Start GRUB Loader"
and msconfig disn't even bitch about it! =)

I get the "Start GRUB Loader" option in NT loader, it starts fine and all, boots the installer, no errors from the kernel

I run the following commands (from Install FAQ on slackware.com):
Code:
mkdir -p /dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /dos
cd /dos
mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0
mkdir /INSTALL
mount -o loop /dos/slackware-11.0-install-d1.iso /INSTALL
I can then "cd /INSTALL" and see all the files, however if I type README.TXT, it says something along the lines of "permission denied"? hmmm

so then I run "setup", assign the partitions (format them to reiserfs), specify /INSTALL as the source media, choose full install and then 1 second later get the message saying install was complete and config is all done and I can now restart. (rerunning the config system option produces the same result again) obviously nothing was copied...

So then I restart and of course GRUB can't boot /dev/hda5... it does recognize the partition is reserfs though.

Am I missing some option in the mount commands or what is it?

Last edited by GamerX; 11-13-2006 at 02:23 PM.
 
Old 11-13-2006, 11:41 AM   #2
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Quick update: I tried making a separate FAT16 partition and copying all the files from disk 1 onto it then doing an install from a partition, same thing happens... Except I can actually read the files from the partition (doesn't give me the permission denied message)

Is there an error log I can check after running an installation?
 
  


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