Despite making a serious effort to RTFM and experiment quite a bit, I am
unable to make a bootable floppy for SLS 1.03...The floppy is made w/o
complaint at the end of the install, but when I attempt boot it, I get
messages something like:
loading....
uncompressing linux....
invalid compressed format...
-system halted
The SLS distribution came from tsx-11.mit.edu and was installed from c:\
install w/o complaint...The disk has 3 partitions:
/dev/hda1 100MB dos
/dev/hda2 ~200MB root
/dev/hda3 16MB swap
mke2fs and mkswap showed a few bad block/pages, but no complaints otherwise
I then ran doinstall /dev/hda2 and specified harddisk /dev/hda1 to install
from...At the end, when I insert the pre-formatted floppy, answered
questions about preset video, modem, mouse, etc...When I was done, neither
the new floppy nor the harddisk were bootable...The only thing I could boot
was the install boot diskette (a1.5)...
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...E-mail replies
preferred...
Terrance M. Darcey, PhD