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I installed Slackware 2.0.2 (1.1.54 kernel) onto my system.

/dev/hda1 is Dos - 172meg
/dev/hda2 is Linux - 218meg  mounted as /
/dev/hda3 is Linux - 16meg  Swap partition
/dev/hdb1 is Dos - 159meg
/dev/hdb2 is Linux - 73meg  mounted as /etc
/dev/hdb3 is Linux - 64meg  mounted as /bin
/dev/hdb4 is Linux - 35meg  mounted as /tmp

I installed most everything there was on the disks...  (This being the
second time i've installed it in 3 days).  

This time:
1: I had to remove my ethernet card because the CD-Rom (sbpcd) hangs up
on it and still doesn't see my cd-rom (Soundblaster 16 MCD - Mitsumi cd
rom (doublespeed) at 230h, 10 irq.)

2: And now it gets to:
VFS: mounted root (ex2 filesystem) readonly
Nov 8 9:26:15 init[1] version 2.4 booting
Nov 8 9:26:15 init[1] no inittab file found

Enter runlevel:

And anything I type at runlevel: gives me another Enter Runlevel prompt,
but if I type a number I get an infinite loop saying that runlevel has no
normal processes at this level.

Help???

Thanks...

                                        Pete

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| Ok, I've got a problem, maybe someone can tell me what I did wrong...
|
| I installed Slackware 2.0.2 (1.1.54 kernel) onto my system.
|
| /dev/hda1 is Dos - 172meg
| /dev/hda2 is Linux - 218meg  mounted as /
| /dev/hda3 is Linux - 16meg  Swap partition
| /dev/hdb1 is Dos - 159meg
| /dev/hdb2 is Linux - 73meg  mounted as /etc
                                         ^^^^
Big no-no -------------------------------^^^^

| /dev/hdb3 is Linux - 64meg  mounted as /bin
                                         ^^^^
Another no-no ---------------------------^^^^

| /dev/hdb4 is Linux - 35meg  mounted as /tmp

The /etc needs to be in the root filesystem.  In particular /etc/fstab
is where other filesystems are referenced.  Your /etc files must be in
the /etc directory on the / filesystem.

| 2: And now it gets to:
| VFS: mounted root (ex2 filesystem) readonly
| Nov 8 9:26:15 init[1] version 2.4 booting
| Nov 8 9:26:15 init[1] no inittab file found

This file is /etc/inittab and needs to be in the / filesystem since no other
filesystems have been mounted yet (and probably never will get mounted).

Repartition and put that 73meg for /etc to better use.  I cannot comprehend
why you think you need a separate /etc of 73meg when you give / 218meg.

If you want to really split up partitions to separate and protect things,
do that with things like /usr and /var and /tmp and /home but not with
things like /etc and /bin and /sbin.  They are just too critical.

I will recommend /dev/hda2 be your base system and merge /dev/hdb2 and
/dev/hdb3 into /home or something.
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