Problems installing pld 1.0

[Sebastian Zagrodzki]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
> The CD boots fine, I see the usual boot messages, but then the screen
> switches to 'press enter to unlock this console'.  Pressing enter does
> nothing.
oh yes, it does :)
It brings you the shell prompt. This is usually enough to install PLD ;))
First of all, create all neccessary partitions:
	fdisk /dev/hdX
Then, initialize swap partition and mount it:
	mkswap /dev/hdXX; swapon /dev/hdXX
Mount all your partitions into /dest and subdirectiories:
	mke2fs /dev/hdXX; mount /dev/hdXX /dest
	mke2fs /dev/hdXY; mkdir /dest/home; mount /dev/hdXY /dest/home
When everything is mounted, run addbase:
	addbase
This will create temporary directory structures in /dest/tmp. It'll
generate /dest/etc/fstab too - for future use :))
Mount your CD:
	mount /dev/hdXX /src
Then run selrpm <listname> - I recommend selecting base, and after
installation adding the rest of necessary pakages - you'll avoid
installing tons of junk packages...
selrpm will ask you some questions. Short translation[1]:

"Instalacja z katalogu/serwera FTP" == "Install from disk / FTP server"
"Wybierz program: prowizorka/wuch" == "Select installation application"
(choose "prowizorka")
"Czy chcesz zainstalowac pakiet..." == "Do you want to install..."
"Wybierz jeden z pakietow" == "Select one of the following packages"
"Czy chcesz instalowac dokumentacje" == "Do you want to install
documentation files" - man pages, info pages, /usr/share/doc/* and like
this.
"Czy przeedytowac liste pakietow" == "Do you want to modify generated
package list"
"Czy uruchomic program "doit"?" == "Run "doit" now?"

[1] Which reminds me I should translate it all into english :>

after finishing selrpm, chroot to /dest directory:
	chroot /dest bash
set password for root:
	passwd
update /boot/initrd (just in case :> )
	geninitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.2.18-14.gz 2.2.18-14
(or whatever kernel version you have)
create /etc/lilo.conf or edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (depending of your
choice of lilo or grub during selrpm)
	vi /etc/lilo.conf
update lilo
	lilo
and voila. That's it :)) You may reboot now...

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Sebastian Zagrodzki			s.zagrodzki at mimuw.edu.pl
UIN 1770835				http://sokrates.mimuw.edu.pl/~zagrodzki

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