On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Mike Howard wrote:
> > [snip]
>
> And then what? I used that procedure in order to get the RH 4.2
> install to work and succeeded in installing RH 4.2 on a second hard
> drive. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out the proper incantation to
> boot it from floppy and don't have `aboot' properly installed on the
> HD so SRM can't find it.
>
Do you, by any chance, have the incantation necessary to boot the hard
drive -after- I've installed RH 4.2?
In any case, thanks for the hints. Unfortunately you credit me for
more brains and foresight than I have. The fact is that, even though I
read all the doc I could find on installing on an alpha, RH's inept
documentation foiled me and I ended up building and trying every disk
in the Image directory before I found one which worked well enough to
boot the CD and install the system. I was so elated, and there is
such a dearth of doc on the bsd compatible features of fdisk, I failed
to partition the disk properly. Flushed with success, I tried to boot
the HD installation from the floppy, but was again the lack of a
reliable guide to the magic spells. Is there a real document or is
this an `oral tradition'?
BTW, I'm still not convinced that I should use fdisk to do it rather
than using the Dec UNIX format utility [name forgotten right now]. I
need to retain Dec UNIX on /dev/rz0 and put RH on /dev/rz1. Do you
have any experience one way or the other? It seems to me that I can
build the correct disk label under DEC UNIX, but then risk the
possibility that Linux won't be able to read it. Contrariwise, the
documents I've read hint that either approach works, and using the Dec
UNIX tools is preferable.
Thanks in adv,
-- Mike Howard <mike@clove.com>
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