Hi all,
Got some dumb installation questions.
Situation:
1. Installing onto a virgin drive (hda2 & hda3) in a system
which already has Linux (Redhat) and Win95 installed
2. Installing from a scsi cdrom which linux recognizes.
3. Boot from install floppy, id of scsi and installation of
basic system are accomplished.
4. As I already have lilo installed and have built a
backup boot floppy I've skipped the reboot section
and gone into configuring the system, network, etc
that are possible from the initial installation.
Now I have the basic Debian system loaded, but haven't
been able to get further in installing the whole system.
And have not gotten into the dselect mode -well ok I did
get that far on my first pass but not since then.
Minor problems/quirks,
1.the boot floppy boots properly but
dumps me at a prompt i.e. doesn't give me a login, I can
"ALT F0-F6" and get a boot prompt but don't seem to be able
to exit the open prompt.
2.On one attempt at installing the system I rebooted and after
logging in got "passwd" demanding that I fill in a passwd
for root. It wouldn't accept my passwd and wouldn't die
no matter how many times I killed it from another window.
Really left me cussing the fool who designed this setup.
Finally went in by hand and set the passwd in /etc/passwd
which leads to my next question are the passwords shadowed
in Debian??
Main Questions:
1. How to restart the installation process and get the
rest of the packages installed?
2. Would blowing away the whole installation up to this
point and starting from scratch make more sense?
3. Has anyone else installed DebIan from the cdrom set
from "Cheaper Bytes"?
Thanks
Jonathan Jefferies
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