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[John Hunt <john.sm AT yoredale.uklinux.net>]

Hi

I decided to give SourceMage a try this past few days. Sorry to say I have 
got 
nowhere with it.

I have the 0.5.1 iso downloaded - thanks Jason.

First try.
On my RH8.0 PC I loop mounted the iso and followed the instructions at 
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Install+using+chroot+and+rsync
But then what do I do? It says there "Enter the Install-Directiory and start 
building" but it doesn't explain how to start building. After some reading of 
man pages I guessed at something like
sorcery update
but that tries to download sources, and I don't yet have any networking set 
up. (I need to access the Internet over a dialup connection running on this 
PC from within the chroot environment.)  Neither have I defined my processor 
architecture.  And does sorcery recompile the kernel?
btw the RH8 kernel apparently does not support devfs - does this matter?
(   mount -n -t devfs devfs /dev     fails)


2nd Try. To get an answer to some of the problems I decided to burn a CD and 
use it to boot an old networked K6-200 PC, to experiment with. (This has 
Win95 on hda and hdb is mostly not partitioned as yet. It already has grub 
installed to make it potentially multi-boot.) 
This failed. The PC reboots every time after a couple of rows of Initrd dots.


So, what do I do now? My preferred solution is to get the chroot option 
working on my main PC so that I can download and rebuild without upsetting 
the PCs normal operation - it acts as file server and internet gateway for 
the rest of the PCs in this houshold. (My daughter gets very cross if she 
can't get on MSN!)

Thanks
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John Hunt
Stokesley, N Yorks, UK
e-mail: john.sm @ yoredale.uklinux.net
URL: http://www.yoredale.uklinux.net/
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