hd install

im stuck at the command prompt, whats tha command for tha desktop to load...

I tried to use: rawrite bare.i a:
and it says permission denied, so i moved bzimage from bare.i
and tried: rawrite bzimage a:
but when booting from the disk it loads and then says invalid compressed format
has anyone got any suggestions? Ive tried the same with other kernels too

Ok, somehow I got something like slackzip to start from floppy, I type in: mount root=/dev/hda2 rw (which is the ext3 primary)
and I get a kernel panic unable to mount...
I tried it on hda3 (fat32 primary) and same thing happens

what am I missing?

I have never done it with a floppy since Redhat5 day. What you are doing just doesn't sound right but I don't have a solution either.

I can't guess since even the barest details asked for everytime you post (words in red) are no where to be read.

You could be trying to recycle a dumpster 486 machine with a damaged IDE cable or a drive that sounds like a can of marbles.

Tell more.

Bob

The first hit in that search is a 2003 writeup of how to install SuSE 7.3 on an IBM RS/6000. The next hit is a 2002 writeup about installing various distributions over a LAN. The third hit is Novell's instructions for burning a drivers floppy onto CD for systems that don't have a floppy drive. Not even close to what the poster asked.

I've asked detailed questions in a narrow technical forum before, and the first response was something like "haven't you heard of Google?" Essentially, an insult. And I'd already spent quite a bit of time searching and not found what I wanted, which is why I'd posted there. Perhaps it hadn't occurred to Drudgetoiler to try the dominant search engine. But I'll bet he already searched some, and didn't find.