Problems installing Fedora Core 3

I've got a laptop with 1/2 Gb memory and 20 Gb hard disk. Can boot from
a CD but doesn't have a floppy drive.
Partitions physically in the 'right' order:
hda1 4-5 Gb, formatted as ext2 and migrated to ext3 by installation
hda2 vfat partition
hda3 1/2 Gb, swap
Immediately after installing Fedora Core, Workstation without
modifications, grub on hda, trying to start the system, I saw some error
messages:

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VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Red Hat nash version 3.5.14 starting
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label Fedora not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: missing mount point
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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Is the space in the label "Fedora Linux" a problem? Anyway, I changed
the kernel line in grub.conf by specifying "root=(hd0,1)"; now I get:

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VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Red Hat nash version 3.5.14 starting
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: missing mount point
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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I checked, /sbin/init is there, even tried adding "init=/sbin/init" to
kernel, but nothing changed. I don't think that's a problem, I have a
feeling that root hasn't been mounted properly. Help!

Thanks in advance

Tom

Hi,

> Immediately after installing Fedora Core, Workstation without
> modifications, grub on hda, trying to start the system, I saw some error
> messages:

Scrap it and use FC5. It's way more laptop friendly.

TTFN

Paul
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