Re: okay...linux setup hangs...

[<chan4@husc.harvard.edu>]

Okey...Thanks for the input.  As many of you may know, I've been 
tinkering w/ linux for a while now.  Last night was the one night I 
decided to stay up and get it working...NOT!

I have the zImage.Thinkpad.  For some reason, just booting w/ it doesn't 
work.  It doesn't recognize the HD geometry.  Something about not being 
able to read superblock.  MS-DOS bread fails.

So what I did was to copy the kernel to an SCSI boot disk, overwriting 
the current SCSI kernel.  That seemed to work, until I started to try to 
install the other portions off floppy.  ARRRRGH!

Okey...anyone who's REALLY REALLY bored...anyone want to make up some 
ThinkPad install disks?  I'd be willing to help with documentation, etc.  
But alas, I don't think I have any reliable way of creating the kernels 
at the current point.

Has anyone else had problems with the INSTALL diskette being mounted as 
read-only?  Apparently, this makes it difficult to create files in the 
/tmp directory on the root (the install disk).  I used the mount -n -o 
remount /dev/fd0 to remount the root as read and write.

Okey...if anyone has any suggestions...I'm going to be pulling another 
all-nighter trying to get Linux installed.  If I get it installed, I will 
try to fully document EXACTLY what I'm doing.

For your info, I have:

TP 750C 4/340.

Hmmm...Please feel free to send a talk request if you want tonight if you 
are bored and want to help.

-- Derek