Victor Odhner wrote:
> 
> OK, now I see my problem!
> 
> I lied about what I had skipped.  I have not installed
> nor configured the base system, because I wanted to do
> that over the network and I can't get that talking yet.

Ohhh.... now THAT is different...

> I have gotten where I'm at using the rescue and root disks
> and four driver disks.  The base would be next.
> I thought I could do this over the network.

there is some way to do this, but it has been YEARS since I have
played...  Typically I just do an install from CD.  If the machine does
not have a CD installed then I open up the box and temporarily give it
one ;-)

But first you might want to try again what you did and give it all the
networking info (I expect that it would need to know how to talk to the
network and whom to talk to if it is doing an install over the network
;-)

> But the installer menu only offers base install from
> cdrom, /dev/fd0, /dev/fd1, or an already mounted
> file system.
> 
> I also haven't done "Edit Kernel Boot Parameters".
> So I'm sure this means that I can't make my hard disk
> bootable at this stage.
> 
> What my machine is running is whatever the rescue disk
> booted me into.  I did uname -a and it says this:
>   Linux (none) 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i586 unknown

that should be fine, I was just brainstorming on what could be the
problem...  like I said it was a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess).

> Sorry to have drug you around all these sharp corners.
> I will now grit my teeth and write a bunch of base
> floppies.

no problem... no blood ;-)

> I don't know where I got the impression that I could
> do that over the network.  Too much input, too little
> brain to put it in.   :-*

not sure what to think about the kissy in these cercomnstances, but that
asside, I also recall that there is some way to do network installs, but
I cannot help you much there...

  EBo --