From: Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...> - 2003-07-30 12:21:48
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On 07/29/2003 10:01:01 PM Bruce Smith wrote: >> > Did you try it with a blank floppy? >> > >> > Mine worked the first time for me too (well, almost:) >> > when I had an old etc.tar.bz2 file left over on my floppy. >> >> The problem can't be the floppy, since it is accessed a while after >the >> first init. >> It is even more important that you use the new version, since the bo= ot >> scripts changed a bit. > >OK, I started a mrproper earlier (limited selection on software), and >tried it when I got home from the LUG meeting. > >Everything is current on this PC because I ran another cvs update just= >now, and there were no new updates to be found. > >I tried the same thing, deleted the files from my floppy and booted th= e >ISO in VMware. It tried to copy the files to floppy, but failed and >rebooted. So, let me ask you again, did you try booting yours with a >_BLANK_ floppy? Or did you _manually_ copy new files to a floppy? To be honest, I always copy the stuff on the config media before I try = it. I currently use a USB flash card. >So, I then manually copied the files to my floppy and booted VMware >again. This time it booted up without warning to a login prompt! :-) Aaaaah. Good ! >The only problem I see right now is the code that copies the default >configs to a blank media. (but I haven't looked very hard either ;) There where some modifications to the linuxrc script, I could accidentl= y have messed something up. There's still more to do, we need to bring down the initial memory consumption by another 4 MB. cya Heiko = |