On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:40:06AM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote: > > Hi all, > I am still having trouble getting Shoestring Linux to boot... > > Apparently x-install does not write inittab (Message is inittab file not found) and >stops > asking me to enter a runlevel..
Please boot with the installation CD again and look at the hda4 partition - in var/log/install there should be some hints what went wrong. Afaics there are 2 possibilites what could have gone wrong - CD ROM media error that caused some packages to be not installed correctly - or the myterious RPM installation error I am trying to hunt down. Possibly in some cases rpm simply exits without installing anything Quick workaournd would be to copy the contents of /cdrom/etc to the freshly installed root-partition, fix fstabs by hand, reboot into the new system and do something crude like. rpm -ihv --nodeps /cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/* Btw the environment on the installation CD is pretty complete system, there are tools like strace etc. > Additionally when I downloaded the files from sourceforge they ended up being 713 > Megs (I had to overburn the disk to fit it)... The MD5sums checked out and the >joining > was performed under WinXP in cmd in the following manner: > > copy /b cdxxa + cdxxb > cdtemp /b > then again copy /b cdtemp + cdxxc cdtemp1 /b (I used two temp files... theoretically >you > can do it in one go but the binary copy sometimes acts very weird under Windows NT > cmd. > > Anybody else got that file size and if not am I doing something VERY wrong there? cd image should be 688488448 bytes long, your NT is doing something strange. Richard
