> ahhh... wait. You mean you you have not written the basic OS to the
> harddrive (ie there is no file system on the disk yet)?
All my hard disk partitions are mounted, as follows:
dev/ type Mounted MB #Blocks
hda1 Primary /boot 8.23 1281 used, 6065 free.
hda2 Primary / 123.38 2175 used, 907 free.
hda3 Primary /usr 1200.90
hda4 Extended
hda5 Logical /swap 65.81
hda6 Logical /home 2319.53
hda7 Logical /tmp 148.06
hda8 Logical /var 501.75
hda9 Logical /work 2130.35
> ... I assume that you were installing it and it died
> in the "make bootable" section which is one of the very last...
Right. I've failed in the DHCP network setup, and
don't know how to find out what IP address I should
assign for my network cards, but network setup is the
only step I've skipped over.
I've set up network drivers, and there is some config
set up in the /etc directory. The /boot partition
(mounted under /target at this stage of install)
contains a kernel:
vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17 1,001,473 bytes
...
which I suspect is a copy of the file "linux" which
is on my initial rescue disk with the same size.
> ... run lilo with the load config_file option "-C" and
> force it to write to the boot record.
I can't run lilo; it says this:
"... the base system must be installed to be
able to run lilo."
But I thought the base system could be loaded over the
network, to avoid loading base from floppies.
Thanks for your patience.
Vic
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