Hello,

I'm trying to execute Slack setup programm as a root under workng distro
(Slackware). I get message like this: There don't seem to be any
partitions on this machine of typy Linux etc.
Whats's wrong? Thanks for any help.
Don't ask me why I'd like to do it

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:54:53 +0000, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:

> I get message like this: There don't seem to be any
> partitions on this machine of typy Linux etc.
> Whats's wrong?

Sounds like the kernel you booted doesn't have support for your
disks in it. Press F2 and then F3 at the boot: prompt for a list
of other kernels available and what they contain.

Jim

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> I'm trying to execute Slack setup programm as a root under workng distro
> (Slackware). I get message like this: There don't seem to be any
> partitions on this machine of typy Linux etc.
> Whats's wrong? Thanks for any help.
> Don't ask me why I'd like to do it

wellllll the setup script tries to build a list of linux partitions
to offer. it does this by calling some other scripts, like /sbin/probe.
however, it is unlikely these scripts exist on your system. now the
setup script does not test for errors like that, and assumes that the
empty output means there are no partitions to find.

any script can be sensitive to it's environment, and the setup scripts
even more so.

note also, that the utilities expected by the setup script are not the
same as the ones you'll find in your standard $PATH, but rather are
usually symbolic links to busybox. they sometimes have slightly
different behaviour than the standard utilities do.

if you're going to be mucking about inside the setup scripts, you'll
need to learn to read them carefully, and how to add little error tests
and echo statements and such to find your way through.

--
William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA