Re: problem with base disks

1997-04-12 Thread Mart Klanberg
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > The solution that I have used many times is to get the boot floppies from > the "stable" release and then just install the "unstable" tree from > dselect. The base system mostly will need to be updated but this works. Getting the last unstable disks

Re: problem with base disks

1997-04-12 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Mart Klanberg wrote: > > Or, if problem is unknown, how can I get the base system from another fs > (the 'prev. mounted fs'), is it the bo/binary/base/* that it needs? (I > tar'ed it to dos partition, and copied to /target/bleh/* ... giving him > /target/bleh/ as the director

problem with base disks

1997-04-12 Thread Mart Klanberg
Hi, When choosing /dev/fd0 to install base system (after successfully initializing all partitions) install script doesn't seem to give '/dev/fd0' as parameter to floppy_merge (error message about correct usage of floppy_merge and another about not being able to extract base system files from '.'