Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:07:58 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:24:36 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> However.... I havwe a feeling that the DOS version of unzip.exe >> is still not going to do the job for you. > On the contrary it unzipped it just fine. > I sat and stared at the screen to try to catch any errors, but > all I saw was "creating", "installing" and "inflating". > But after I edited the LINUX.BAT file to reflect the location of > it all, and then tried to boot, I got a lot of > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > and the occasional > INIT: Id "c*" respawing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > where * was variously 1 to 6. > The system would then pause for some time (5 minutes?) and > restart with the same errors repeated. What I'm afraid of is that those errors will never 'sort themselves out' but will continue to happen due to the fact that the LFNs and deep dirs were not created correctly. It even seems that the DOS version of unzip.exe was not even able to correctly extract /sbin/agetty nor the shutdown script items needed for rebooting via Ctrl+Alt+Del -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --