On Oct 14,  3:19pm, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> >My problem with *that* was that I was installing on an existing 1.3
> >system, and it wouldn't copy more than about 2 megabytes from the CD to
> >a disk without inducing a reboot (no panic, no traceback, just alakazam!
> >and you're rebooting).  (Well, actually, it's a 1.2G system, but *that*
> >wouldn't mount the CD, so I dug up a 1.3 kernel and booted that just for
> >the purpose of getting the tgz files off the CD.  That's how I found out
> >1.3 wouldn't copy off the CD without rebooting.  I wound up using the
> >1.3 kernel to mount the CD and FTP'd the diskimage.gz file to another
> >asystem so I could FTP it back onto a disk and then dd it onto my install
> >disk.  I had lots more fun than you might at first expect :-).
> 
> I dont get it. Once you'd gotten a 1.3 kernel running, you should be
> able to mount the CD as an is09660 filesystem (right?) and do the
> install that way, using the "already mounted" filesystem.

  I think this problem was the ASC driver on the 5000/200.

Michael

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA