Bob Stia wrote:
>Running 8.2, not 9.1, but I also made the boot floppy, reccue floppy,
>and the 5 module disks. When the floppy boots it presents a menu.
>Install, safe install, rescue, etc. No matter what option I choose it
>asks me for module 1, the module containing usb and whatever else might
>be on there. It never asks for any of the other modules. Then I get
>the login, and after login I get the "rescue" prompt.
>
>So far so good ? Maybe ??? Then I can cd into any main directory. I
>cannot cd into any subdirectory, eg: /home/Bob, or /user/local,
>or /var/log etc. etc. Get the message no such file or directory. If I
>do an ls -l on the directory it doesn't show the subdirectories. Very
>frustrating and unusable.
>
>The rescue floppy does not boot by itself, so I expected that after
>booting and choosing the rescue option it would ask for the rescue
>disk. Never did.
>
>Just wondering how far you went in testing the capabilities of your
>alternate boot system and if so did you encounter any problems.
>
>Bob S.
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>Were you doing an upgrade or new full install? Were you using the SUSE 8.2
>
>
DVD from the Novell Technical Resouce Kit? Did you get far enough with
the install to set
root and user passwords and if so were you logged in as root?
When I did the 9.1 install I tried upgrading my 8.2. I found I had
problems with that and went
and installed 9.1 as a full new install.
Richard Smoot
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