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Re: Install problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Oct 30 20:56:20 1998

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:47:19 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Boris Lutz wrote:

> I tried to install RH 5.1 on a 486 but it suddenly stopped while loading
> the kernel reporting it could not mount /dev/proc.

My proc filesystem works normally and there is no /dev/proc device.

/etc/fstab has this line:
none            /proc   proc   defaults

It almost sounds like you are using an old /etc/fstab from a previous
install.

>
> However when I inserted the rescue disc I made on another RH 5.1 system I
> had no problems booting the kernel. Did I miss something?
>
> Thanks,
> Boris
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