On Tuesday 17 July 2001 12:42, you wrote:
> Juhan Leemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> > ...I have a Compaq Prolinea 4/50s with PODP upgrade so it looks like a
> > 83MHz Pentium...
>
> Is it a pentium or not ? what looks like means for you ?
[juhan@compaq2 /]$ more /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 3
model name : OverDrive PODP5V83
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 83.524009
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8
bogomips : 33.28
(slow) Pentium, right?
> ...It's currently running RedHat 6.1 very nicely. I would like to
> > move my machines to a common code base, and Mandrake looks like the best
> > for me. However, I cannot install 8.0 into that machine....
> What gives Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and Alt-F4 at least ?
for my attempt at installing using hd.img, I get:
(Alt-F1) ...
install exited abnormally :-(
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
unmounting file systems...
/proc
/tmp/hdimage
you may safely reboot your system
(Alt-F2) DrakX v1.510 built Wed Apr 18 08:14:11 2001
#
(Alt-F3) ...
* running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/af_packet.o
(Alt-F4) ...
<6>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
<6>SCSI subsystem driver revision 1.00
I guess I would prefer to do a network install. That's more or less the same
output, except that it warns about mount being older than kernel (or
something like that). What bothers me is that there are no error messages?!?
It just says "install exited abnormally :-(" with no explanation. That could
be improved, IMO.
p.s. Dunno what it's doing with SCSI subsystem? No SCSI in that hardware, but
I guess that is just a standard (install boot) configuration?
> > If I've specified a text install, why is DrakX (graphic install?) even
> > being used? I would have thought it would use newt for i/o?
>
> Yes, it should use newt, press F1 on very first boot, then enter text and
> press ENTER key.
Did that, but it still comes up with the DrakX. Is that normal? Also tried
"text expert", asks more questions but ends up in the same problem state.
Hmm, I wonder if the newt support is "damaged" somehow? I'm pretty sure I've
used it on one of my other small (32MB) systems. I'll try it again, soon.
> > If I'm doing a cdrom install, why does it apparently fail after trying to
> > load af_packet.o? That's networking stuff...
[snip]
> It is doing that all the time, but this should not hurt you computer, this
> is different from the device driver.
> > Network install seems to produce normal logs, until it shuts down,...
The last thing in the Alt-F3 log was the "running ...af_packet.o" before it
shutdown. I was guessing that might be some attempt at an error message?
> How much memory do you have on this old computer ?
32MB, so a "live" install (cdrom, hd, nfs) should work according to the docs.
--
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.
