Re: [Trinux-talk] I need help please ...

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Another fellow was having difficulty with the CDROM, and I was going to 
look into it more, but I just don't have the time right now.

The CDROM is a little more difficult to debug because of the need to build 
a third filesystem (the CDROM) with the embedded floppy image, which 
contains the initial boot filesystem image, which is where some important 
scripts live.  See my prior post for more info.

The Trinux boot sequence is pretty easy to figure out.  Have a look at
/linuxrc.  This script is run to setup the filesystems and load the
initial image and packages.  Like I say, it lives in the boot filesystem
image (initrd)  which is buried pretty deep.  But you can see the script
on a live Trinux system, and you can figure out why it doesn't behave the
way you think it should.

It is probably easier to manually perform the steps yourself after boot, 
than it is to change the script.  Which, is my guess as to why it hasn't 
been fixed yet.

If you have gotten the CDROM booted, then you are 99% there.

I hope this helps....

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Gavin Hargreaves wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Firstly i am still learning linux/trinux (convert from windoze) so apologies
> in advance if this is a stupid question.
> 
> Ok i have downloaded the iso image and made a bootable CD and I have got the
> ide boot image floppy also.
> 
> My problem is when i boot with the ide floppy disk trinux boots fine and
> finds the cdrom etc but i am unable to add any other packages.  when i use
> getpkg <package name> nothing happens ... it just returns to the bash
> prompt.
> 
> if i use pkgadd <package name>.tgz it says package added but then nothing
> again.
> 
> I can mount the cd with mount /dev/hdc /mnt and then cd to it and see all
> the packages in the trinux dir
> 
> If i just boot from the CD i get the same problems.
> 
> I have also added packages to the pkglist on the boot floppy but they just
> get ignored during boot.
> 
> The solution is probably really easy but please can somebody tell me
> what/where/why etc I am doing wrong
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gavin Hargreaves
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