Thank you all for your help. After much trial and error: The problem was with the harddisk setup.
My previous installation was on a IDE harddisk, and I tried to keep that installation by marking it "do not use" in the partition manager. However: GRUB cannot deal with this (there are other messages online about the same problem, related to the priorities that are assigned to hardware on installation, versus priorities on booting). The only way to make GRUB install in the proper place turned out to be to unplug the older IDE harddisk. I also put the System SATA disk in SATA connection nr. 1 on the motherboard, but expect that this was a superfluous action. So after removing the IDE disk, the installation was super smooth! And is up and running right now. As for the weird "cannot download linux-rt" message. My experience so far is that the installer will behave strangely on problems. Seldom is there a direct relation between the cause of the problem and the message displayed. Thanks for explaining the oddities with root passwords in the new installer. I'll get used to it. Thanks you all for the help, Frans. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: >> >>> The installer runs through all the stages, but does not ask for a root >>> password (which I found odd). >> >> This is normal because 3.0 is based on Ubuntu and not Debian. Ubuntu's >> security policy is to *not* have a root login... instead doing >> everything >> through sudo. They claim that having a root login (or using 'su') >> promotes unsafe practices. >> > Using root and su does promote unsafe practises. As an aside, sudo can > be logged and locked down to specific apps for specific users. Sudo is > simply awesome. > >> ...of course, I'm not sure that allowing 'sudo su' is much safer... but >> that would be flame bait, wouldn't it... > > There was a recent "discussion" about these issues. The 64Studio > default for sudo not requiring a password appals me but I believe the > consensus was to keep that default going forward. You can prevent sudo > from running su quite easily. > > In case Daniel and Free missed it, I think the current default is bad. > No need to discuss it further since my position will not change and I > can always make 64Studio behave in a way that is consistent with my own > policies. >> >>> At the end of the installation process, it >>> recommends to reboot, but it cannot boot from the harddisk. >> >> Did you make sure that your root partition is marked with the 'bootable' >> flag? >> > Also, how many hard drives are in this machine? Perhaps the boot order > is messed up in the BIOS or there are two or more bootable devices (I > see this with the odd USB drive)? There are a number of possibilities. > Try to simplify as much as possible. > >>> One caveat for users installing this next to an older installation: if >>> you >>> leave a swap partition in existence on another harddisk, the installer >>> will claim that 'linux-rt' cannot be downloaded. >> >> This doesn't make sense. Is the problem that you ran out of memory... >> or >> that some benign swap partition on another disk blocked your download? >> And why was it trying to download a kernel? The ISO ships with a >> kernel. >> > That does seem to be a weird problem. > >>> I will try to do a clean install with good old 2.1 and then update to 3 >>> from there. >> >> This will probably NOT work. The upgrade path is Debian Etch -> >> Ubuntu Hardy. While it might work... you will likely have stability >> issues. >> > It worked for me in a test VM. I am still a believer in a clean first > install though, especially for the less experienced users. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJqfLuwRXgH3rKGfMRAmf/AJ9rLLp6cmp+EiP+TUSdzRT2siNUCgCfX2uV > FRZRyfCbmmzdWnm5SOyto6k= > =XKL3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
