Roger.

I have no idea if this could help (it's been a while since installing 
MkLinux and I don't remember what the minimal install installs, etc. but 
you could try booting into single user mode by typing s when the booter 
asks you to choose the OS to boot from (make MkLinux the default OS). 
Then hopefully this will allow you to get a prompt where you can type df 
and see if you have any space left. Maybe you could even try custom 
installing if it really is a disk free problem and not something else.

Good luck,

Taro

David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Roger Brown wrote:
> 
> 
>> I have managed to 'install' but not run 'MkLinux' on a Performa 6200/75/CD
>> with 330 Meg SCSI and 24Meg RAM. The installation was on the external SCSI.
>> The drive was partitioned with a patched version of HD Setup 7.5.3.
>> 
>> I have the DR3 CD Image on the internal CD drive which it happily
>> recognises.
>> 
>> I am using the Mach_Kernel.PERFORMA3.gz file, (ungzipped and renamed to Mach
>> Kernel).
>> 
>> If I do a default install it gets to the 'root' prompt but refused access
>> with a messages saying 'pam, illegal module type' flashing up for less than
>> a second before a clear screen and relogin. Yes, I did enter the same
>> password as asked for at installation.
>> 
>> If I try a minimal install the 'init' process appears to try all the run
>> levels but a process is spawning too fast with the message 'can't open UTMP:
>> no such file or directory'.
>> 
>> Am I supposed to be using a more recent CD image? (as I don't know where to
>> find this mystic pre-R1 that people talk about)
> 
> I strongly suggest installing on IDE.  But since you get as far as you did
> (most people with SCSI issues get a hang when it mounts the filesystem),
> my guess is that your problem was actually running out of space in one of
> your partitions.
> 
> 
> David
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