/dev/sda1 is mount on /target /dev/ram0 is mount on / /dev/hda is mounted on /instmnt
That's it. does this help? ----------------------------------------------------- Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... ----------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote: > Amanda Shuler wrote (Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:49:46 -0500 (EST) ): > |>umm.. no.. I'm alreayd installing from floppies. I can't install from > |>cd-rom because the stander kernel provided with the debian install does > |>not work with my system. > |>Someone else on here had the same problem I had with an Adaptec AIC-7770 > |>and posted an ftp address where there was a bootable kernel that had the > |>driver for this card already compiled in. I am using that kernel. > |>I am beginning to wonder if loopback device is compiled into that kernel. > |> > > wait a minute...now i remember. /instmnt *should* be the directory to > which the installation is being done. assuming this, i think that > /dev/sda1 (or whichever device corresponds to the partition on your > SCSI drive where you want linux to live) should be mounted as > /instmnt, not /dev/hda1. the error may be generated as a result of > attempting to write to the cd-rom. at least i think this is what's > happening. > > when you go to the console shell, is /dev/sda1 mounted anywhere? > > -alan >
