On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I think I'm lost on what you're trying to accomplish. Working 8.2 or > > cooker? As I said, cooker will have issues. I doubt kde or gnome will be > > fully functional, as a number of the needed files are not present on the > > mirrors. You should be able to get a functional command line environment > > though, and probably X with a more basic window manager. > > > > Your other alternative is to use > the 8.2 update packages available on the > > club, to get the newer apps. > > Since a clean cooker install doesn't work for me, I try first to install 8.2 then >upgrade. I don't really want a minimal install (I want X to work at least) but I just >wanted to report the bug with minimal 8.2 --> It crash in text mode. > > For the clean cooker install, the problem seems to be in one of the script during >the installation. When I reboot, there's no hdaxx inside the /dev/ so it can't be >mount. I tried to make a "ln -s" to the /dev/ide/....../partxx but doesn't survive a >reboot. Is it a devfs problem ? > If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links, they're created dynamically. Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV or dev rpm. There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas. What are you using for the installer for your clean cooker? I know for sure that the installer on the mirrors does not reflect where we ended up at the end of 8.2. > The only problem to install gnome2 seems to be the sgml-common package. It is not >recent enough four the taste of doc-dtd412, so scrollkeeper. So I got a >/etc/xml/catalog missing or empty. > Icewm-light works well but I'm using fbdev. > Sounds like you are at least functional then with cooker? Once the remaining packages appear, things should get better. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
