On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:41:23PM -0800, David Cantrell wrote:
> OK, things seem to be getting a little tense here. I wasn't around while
> this thread was on the go...had gone to get dinner.
>
> Anyways. I thought I had explained this, but I would not be surprised if
> I didn't. If you boot the CD and install from that, you have to manually
> copy over the kernel, map file, and modules to your root filesystem.
> After that you have to write the /etc/silo.conf file *AND* install SILO.
> Since the setup program doesn't touch silo right now, you have to give it
> the initial kick in the ass to get it at the beginning of the drive.
>
>
> Here's a basic overview of the installation steps needed:
<snip> Thanks!
> As for Bill's mystery kernel....well, there had to be something on the
> drive if it wasn't booting from the CD. The current package tree
> (/slakware) doesn't have any kernel packages and there's no automatic
> setup of SILO at the moment. Did you have something else on the drive
> before you put Slackware on there?
Yeah the machine came with RedSplat but I totally nixed all the
partitions that were there in favor of one large partition. I'm pretty
sure that all that stuff is gone.
-Bill
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