On Fri, 17 Dec, 1999 à 04:03:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an rather! old IBM Thinkpad Model 720. It has MCA architecture and the > disk is an ESDI disk, but no CDROM. [...] > eda: eda1 eda2 eda3 > I assume that eda1 is my old DOS, while eda2 and eda3 are the Linux ext2 and > Linux Swap partitions (which I have created before).
How did you created them without the devices fiels ? [...] > When I shell-out and check /dev, I can not see any /dev/eda or /dev/eda1 > devices. Are there devices missing? Which? How can I create them? Does /dev/MAKEDEV exist ? If so, /dev/MAKEDEV eda would suffice, if not then use mknod to create the block devices (mknod b 36 0 /dev/eda ; mknod b 36 1 /dev/eda1...) > Is is sufficient to do this an the ash shell and continue installation or has > the root.bin to be changed? Am I right, if I assume that the resc1440.bin does > not exactly fit to the root.bin in my sitution? Not sure > What do I have to do? I have another system running where I can compile a > kernel > or something else, if this woulld help! > Manually format /eda2 and mount it on /target then proceed with the menu after initialize a linux partition (you'll have to create /etc/fstab too I think) but try to let the menu does all the work once you've created the device files. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \) Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! (/ | \_|_ Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
