On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 08:15:01PM -0600, Tim Fairbank wrote: > Hi Clay: > > >After the kernel loaded, I got a message saying /sbin/unconfigure.sh > >couldn't run because it was a read-only filesystem (not the exact > error; I > >can get that if needed), and I couldn't get any further than that. > > That's exactly where I got stuck last night. Eventually, I found an old > > message in the mail archives that implied that the next move was to > delete /sbin/unconfigure.sh, so I did. (Actually, just to play it safe, > I > renamed it to /sbin/unconfigure.sh.dist) That helped considerably; > now I can boot all the way into a login shell. > > Even so, the existance of that file seems to imply that all is not quite > > right. My next step is to track down all the things that the normal > x86 debian installer would have configured for me, and try to fix > them manually. Here's my checklist, so far: > > 1. Host name > 2. IP address > 3. DNS servers (resolv.conf) > 4. Time zone? (I don't quite know where to look for this...)
For timezone, run tzconfig. Also set /etc/fstab up. Really, the installer should work sometime soon... Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
