Installation Difficulties

[Brian Densmore]

Did the box has a bootable OS before? Kind of a small harddrive. And now
for my question of the obvious, what is the size of the install
packages? Make sure this figure is big enough to fit in the root
directory. By the way I hope you meant "/" when you said "/root". 

/ is the root directory, it is absolutely needed
/root is the superuser home directory

if you did not create a / partition the system will not work. Period.

HTH,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jose sanchez [mailto:j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:20 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Installation Difficulties
> 
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I've tried to install RH 6.2 on a Dell Dimension P100t
> with 40M Ram via NFS. This didn't work. I tried
> installing with CD-ROM, this didn't work either. In
> both instances the installation completes and
> supposedly install. When I try to reboot I get a
> "Missing Operating System" error. I don't have no idea
> why.
> 
> These are the partitions:
> /boot 30M
> /swap 80M
> /root 700M
> 
> It never prompts me if I want to install LILO...
> 
> Any idea what may be causing this. 
> 
> After 6 unsuccessful installations I decided to get
> help from the list... Thanks in advance.
> 
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