| From: | Andrew Barker |
| Date: | 13 Mar 2001 at 10:44:35 |
| Subject: | Re: A question about Linux |
I'm not expert, but from what I've seen, you need a Kernal that had PCMCIA enabled.
Since the Squirrel SCSI uses this.
I've no idea how you work out which device it would be either. Is there a command
under linux to list your devices.
On my SCSI bus (via BPPC) you use /dev/sda ..... It could be similar on your Squirrel.
When you say installed kernal, I assume you mean the base_2.2.tgz ? to install the base
package.
Anyway, as Alan said you can press ALT+2, 3 etc to get another console up ;-)
Check to see if you have a mount point for the device you are going to mount.
For example, cd /dev, mkdir amiga, mount -t affs /dev/hda1 /dev/amiga.
You may use another device rather than hda1 could be hda2...3...4.. ?
I think you have to edit yout ATP install source with something like file://dev/amiga/ or
something ?
Sorry, If I've confused matters more, if I'm wrong, then someone please correct me.
Regards
Andy Barker
DonaldWM@stonelawdrive.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just a quick question about installing the 68k version of Linux provided on AACD18 :
>
> I wasn't able to install the kernal from the CD as, unlike other people, I didn't get the
> error 'Not a Debian CD' but instead Linux simply didn't find my CD-Rom drive at all.
> I suspect that Linux either doesn't recognise Surf Squirrels as a valid place for a CD drive
> to be or just can't handle SCSI CD-Rom drives. Anyway, I copied the 'potato' directory
> from the Linux session of the CD over to the root of one of my FFS formatted partitions
> and when I ran the Linux install program I chose that partition (dev/hda2) as the location
> of the archives. The kernal installed without problems onto two partitions
> (dev/hda9 & dev/hda10) on my hard drive after several aborted attempts
> and I can now boot into Linux whenever I feel like it.
>
> However I am somewhat stumped when it comes to installing the packages. As the 'potato'
> directory is in the root of an FFS partition, is it possible to get Linux to recognise that
> partition like it did in the initial install process as a source of packages and if so, how?
>
> Donald
>
>
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