From: Andrew Criswell (andy@arcriswell.com)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 17:30:56 CEST
Dear All:
Success! Thanks for all your help. I now have muLinux up and running on my DEC 486SL (8MB ram, 40MB HDD), and all with Bill Gate's assistance (no MS DOS).
Here's how I did it with your collective help:
1. Boot ROOT+BOOT+USR floppy (muLinux 12r2) and run in maintenance mode.
2. Partition HDD using fdisk.
/dev/hda1 16MB Linux swap
/dev/hda2 Linux native (made bootable)
3. Run:
mkswap -c /dev/hda1
mke2fs -c /dev/hda2
4. Reboot using ROOT+BOOT+USR floppy.
Say "yes" to USR addon, but to all other addons (for now) say "no". (to conserve memory).
5. Remove ROOT+BOOT+USR floppy and replace it with FDD containing the LILO file from muLinux distribution.
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
cp /mnt/lilo /tmp
ln -s /tmp/lilo /usr/bin
( /tmp was the only place with sufficient memory to accomodate the 204KB lilo file. I checked memory limitations using df command.)
6. Run command, umount /mnt, and replace ROOT+BOOT+USR floppy. Run clone, specifying EXT2, Linux swap and LILO.
7. Reboot without FDD. It works!
All the best,
ANDREW
Andrew Criswell
Professor
Graduate School, Bangkok University
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