[Rule-list] Slinky 0.1.7 "test"

[Raymundo Baquirin]

Hi, all,
I've been following the list and want to help with testing.  I expect to get 
the Red Hat 7.2 CDs by the month-end and will be looking for a 486 notebook 
to install on.

I did rummage through my CDs and found a Cheap Bytes Red Hat 6.1, so  
downloaded the install images for Slinky 0.1.7, made the floppies and tried 
the install on my home PC.

Results:
o Booted from floppy with the Red Hat 6.1 CD in the CDROM drive, used "linux 
mem=12M" boot parameter

o At shell prompt went into scripts directory and did "sh setup.sh"

o Chose CD as install medium and /dev/hda as the disk to partition

o Chose fdisk and quitted immediately as I had existing Linux partitions I 
could use

o My Linux swap partition (/dev/hda4) was identified and swapping turned on

o I chose a root partition to install on (/dev/hda6)

o Got the following messages
 
    Using hda1 hda7 as the /boot partition
    Creating root file system
    mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
    Done.
    Creating /boot file system
    mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
    mke2fs bad blocks count - hda7
    Failed to create file system, exiting

o Decided I could do without a /boot partition (didn't expect a working 
install anyway, w/o the RH 7.2 disks) so I edited setup.sh, commenting out 
the part that sets up the /boot partition

o Tried the install again, this time it went all the way

o Got success messages for the RPM installs but error messages for the 
post-install scripts, plus some messages about missing packages

o Tried to boot into the installed system but couldn't

o Booted into my regular Linux, mounted /dev/hda6 and had a look--packages 
seemed to have installed all right, but obviously something was missing.

I'm wondering if I should give my PC specs, as this isn't a real test, the PC 
runs a full Linux installation (plus Windows).

HTH,

Ray