Problems installing pld 1.0

[Philip J. Hollenback]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice, but the problem is that at the 'Press <enter>'
prompt, pressing enter (or any other key) does nothing - the system
appears hung.

P.

On Pungenday, the 5th of Discord, Philip J. Hollenback spake:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:11:06AM -0800, Philip J. Hollenback wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I downloaded the PLD 1.0 CD image from your site and am attempting to
> > install it.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > This is on a system with a Tyan motherboard and via apollo vp ide
> > controller.
> First of all you have to know that we have no real installer.
> Pressin enter should give you the console. Then this what you have to do
> is to prepare the disk using fdisk;mke2fs;swapon and so on. I assume you 
> know how to do it. Then you have to mount your new ROOT into /dest make 
> there directorys which you need and then mount the rest of your filesystems
> then if I remember well there are four important scripts addpkg, selmod,
> addbase, doit.
> addpkg I dont realy remember for what it is. It can give you the suport for
> pcmcia, nfs, reiser, wget und stuff.
> selmod gives you the posibility to load module with support for something
> into the kernel like scis, eth0 so on.
> addbase adds the basic stuff neded for instalation.
> and doit start the instalation of packages. Im hope it is in english if 
> not I promise to translate it soon.
> 
> Good luck and feel free to ask more. Finaly we will have some users
> not only developers :)))
> 
> 
> Take care, and let the force be with you.
> 	The Lord of the darknes
> 		Lukasz Dobrek
> 
> 
> 
> 



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