126

Installation

Task 11: Finish Stage One

After building a boot floppy the only thing left to do for a base install is

Reboot The System. The new system can be booted from the hard disk

(assuming that LILO installed correctly) or using the new boot floppy. The

DOS partition, if there is one, can be rebooted now and a loadlin installation

can be set up if that is the desired boot path. No matter which method will

be used, the final step in the base installation is  Reboot The System !

Stage One Installation is now complete. Stage Two Installation begins

on the next reboot of your newly installed base system. Be sure to remove

the CD that you used to install the base system, as you do not wish to reboot

from the CD at this time.

Dwarf wishes to point out that you can, indeed, use the CD to boot your new

system, assuming that your hardware will boot the CD. When you get the

boot: prompt, enter linux /dev/ where  is

the device where the root file system resides. So, if you set root as hda3 then

the command would be:

linux /dev/hda3

This is a useful method for rebooting your system when the kernel is broken.

You can also do a normal boot and use the installation system to recover from

a more broken system, so this is a good recovery method. However, at this

stage we are hoping our newly installed LILO boot process is going to work,

so remove the CD before rebooting for Stage Two.