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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > > loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 initrd=initrd.img
> >
> > Where in Ubuntu would we find initrd?
>
> boot/initrd.img is the standard place for an initrd.

/initrd.img (in the root directory not boot) worked but then Ubuntu filled 
up the 1.8GB we left it and wanted more space.  When I tried to delete a 
few things I could not be root because the file system was full.  It put 
on Malayalam fonts (after we specified English).  We are trying again on a 
4GB drive - 'cannot load default config file' for font cache.  You don't 
have any deformized font packages..........
> > Can I run init after chrooting?
>
> No. "Init is the parent of all processes" and must be the first thing
> started in user space.

But I can still run BL3 programs chrooted from BL2 sometimes.  What does 
init actually do?

> > I think to chroot to BL3 I just
> > run rc (but the paths are still wrong, they refer to directories I
> > dont' have in BL3 and I am still in shell bash instead of sh).
> >
> > I just tried typing 'init' while chrooted and got 'Init is the
> > parent of all processes'.  BL3 has no login, but if Ubuntu does,
> > could we login after chrooting?  I don't even know how to login as
> > root there - it did not ask us to pick a root password.
>
> You should be able to run the login command and successfully log in.
I cannot login to BL3 because there is no login.  I can chroot from Bl3 to 
BL2 and login.  I think Steven once explained how to add login to BL3.


> > I suggested SuSE as an alternate linux since it lets you choose what
> > to leave out (then you can delete half of the rest).
>
> Does SuSE start umpteen processes and thereby take a long time to
> boot?

How did you guess?  Ubuntu Debian is not quite as bad but it does start a 
random number generator and some other cron processes.  Our main objection 
so far is it installed Gnome and OpenOffice without asking permission.

> > > > This is one of two computers that would not boot loop BL3, but it
> > > > works with BL2 RAMdisk or ext2 and ubuntu is ext2.
> > >
> > > Can you try on a better PC?
> >
> > Better in what way?  It worked on this one except we did not
> > install a boot manager.  It insisted on 128MB RAM.  The neighbor
> > gave it to him because it has a live CD.  I don't know why he put
> > it on hard drive.
> > 300MHz.
>
> I meant to try it on a PC that can boot loop BL3.

I wanted to try it on this one because it already has the IDE CD-burner 
that won't work in linux before kernel 2.6, and it is 300MHz and has 128MB 
RAM.  Most of our others have less RAM and no CD-burner.  We are also 
setting up the dual-CPU 200MHz (with a second CPU from a dead board given 
to us by a different person) with the failing 8GB drive in order to see if 
Ubuntu can do SMP.

We have two such computers and they do everything right except boot BL3 
loop.  They boot floppy BL3 and ext2 BL3 and I can mount BL3 fs.img as 
loop from BL2 and chroot to it.

I was hoping to get rid of Win98 if Ubuntu could substitute, but the modem 
update program I just downloaded needs Win98SE, as does the last one.  (I 
had one that worked in DOS and required some decision making).  I have 
Win98FE (which won't even work with the 4MB SB Live driver I just 
downloaded to test the card, which works in linux with emu10k1 after 
soundcore).  Is there something I can do to Win98FE so that the Win98SE 
(not an upgrade) will install on top of it?  It refuses to install right 
now and I don't want to delete FE because I have added a lot of programs 
to it.


My partner wonders why Ubuntu is installing locales and fonts for all 
sorts of non-English languages after he picked English.  We could run it 
in Basque or Catalan or Bulgarian.  I voted for Bulgarian.  I found some 
HOWTO's in Slovene.





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