At 04:58 PM 1/16/00 -0800, you wrote:
> Installing a newly-built kernel the night before a trip, I was doing too
>many things at once and I totally hosed lilo on my Toshiba Portege. It can't
>boot: "cannot find setup signature."
>
> I've spent the weekend trying to "rescue" it, but without success. I can't
>find a 'rescue.img' or a 'rescue.txt' file. Strike one.
>
> Anyway, this is a good opportunity to better partition the drive. I've been
>trying to do a complete re-installation, but again without success.
>
> Here's the situation. The Toshiba has an external floppy drive with its
>own port. I have an external CD-ROM drive which works off a pcmcia slot. If
>I use the regular boot.img floppy, the CD-ROM drive is not recognized. But,
>according to the RH 6.1 Reference Guide, the pcmcia.img should be what I use
>to do a CD-ROM installation. Wrong!
>
> When I boot using the pcmcia.img floppy, the cdrom drive is recognized,
>but there's no installation option for that. Only nfs, ftp, http, or hard
>drive. Strike two.
>
> So, I plug in the network cable to the NIC (the notebook worked just fine
>on the network before I hosed lilo), reboot using the pcmcia.img floppy and
>try to do a nfs installation.
>
> On the server, I put the cd in the drive and mounted it. Then I exported
>/mnt/cdrom to the network and restarted the network. On the notebook, I
>entered its static IP address in the dialog box, and the rest was filled in
>correctly. In the next dialog box, I entered the server's fully qualified
>domain name and /mnt/cdrom for the Red Hat Linux directory. Was told that
>that directory couldn't be mounted. Tried again using the server's IP
>address, same results. Strike three.
>
> Will someone here please help me? I'm off on another business trip Tuesday
>and I'd really like to take the notebook with me. I've RTFM, searched the RH
>web site for errata and tried two different installation methods, each of
>which should work. Neither does. I really need some help here!
>
>TIA,
>
>Rich
>
When you exported the CD, did you remember to restart rpc.nfsd
to let it know you changed the /etc/exports file? Also, it the
address of the laptop listed in /etc/hosts.allow? I have run
into both problems when I was trying to do an install in a
hurry. Your log files on the server should give you a good
idea of why the laptop couldn't mount /mnt/cdrom...
Mikkel
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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