Re: Mulinux setup with ext2 partition

From: Eddy Gora (eddygo@radiocontact.ro)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 09:40:06 CET


Hello ,
I am Eddy from Bucharest , Romania .
I had trouble too to install muLinux on floppys and hdd and I found some
interesting document on LDP site called "BootDisk HOWTO"
You should read it , it's very interesting , specially when you want to build
your own mini linux system. MuLinux it's based approx. on the same concepts.

On my machine , the linux install fails.When I try to boot LILO show me only LI
?!
So I decide to install from DOS.
First , you must format the diskette(s) with 1772M capacity.
In Linux there is sintax :
                             fdformat /dev/fd0H1772
In DOS you must load first an utility program in TSR , called fdread
After , you could use fdformat (DOS version of course ..) to format your disk(s)
with 1772M.

Then , copy the images of mulinux with rawrite

Hope useful,
Eddy Gora
Mathematics & Informatics "Spiru Haret " University Bucharest , Romania

Andrew Criswell wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> I am having trouble installing Mulinux on my machine. I hope someone can
> help me out.
>
> I have a Digital DEC 486SL with 123 MB HDD and 8 MB of RAM. I have formatted
> the machine with a Linux ext2 primary partition and 16 MB Linux swap logical
> partition.
>
> I have the Mulinux version 11-8 on a collection of floppies and they work (I
> tried them out on another machine).
>
> When I try to install Mulinux, I get as far as the first boot floppy. I can
> load the USR partition. But then, when I move to the next floppy, I can get
> no further than 22% completed.
>
> In general, my question is this: is it possible to install Mulinux without
> any reliance on MS DOS?
>
> Thank you,
> ANDREW
>
> Professor of Finance
> Graduate School, Bangkok University
>
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