Are u sure 94 meg for / is enough !? this means the contains of /etc /lib have to be smaller then 94 meg.
I think you should be a little more generous with your space overthere. greetings, Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:38 AM Subject: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.0 RC3 installation adventure part 2 > Same system as my last message: > My system is a home-built EPOX 8KHA/1.4 Athlon/768 Meg ram/100gig WD1000BB > My partition table looks like this: > 94 meg / > 94 meg (future) > 94 meg (future) > 94 meg (future) > 200 meg /boot > 380 meg /swap > Remaining is LVM > LVM: > 4 gig /usr > 4 gig /var > 4 gig /home > > > Preface: Since my previous installs didn't work, I decided to try a new > tack. I installed a fresh 8.2 installation, working from the first CD > alone. I then tried an Upgrade, and ended up with another 5 installs > > (0. - I have a usbmouse and using an auto config floppy, doesn't configure > the mouse properly again. Even in 8.2. This seems to be reproducible, > unlike everything else) > > The first three were tried with the "Expert/Upgrade" option. > 1. - Hung during the find partitions step on /dev/hdb6. So I reboot > 2. - This time it makes it past all the partitions, and I select the > /dev/hda1 partition to upgrade. As it is reading the RPMs from the 8.2 > install, I get this message on the console tty. > "rpmdb: damaged header instace #202 retrieval, skipping" > It doesn't really skip it, it just loops over and over again. Reboot > again. > 3. - Makes it farther. Kernel panic on checking /usr partition (in the > LVM) > > The Fourth install was "expert/upgrade packages" option > 4. - This time it upgrades, and I finish the installation. I reboot. Then > the fun begins. > a. during startup init.d/usb gives a message about "expr not found". > b. X doesn't start, and it starts up at a console a la Runlevel 3 > c. I try "startx" to manually bring up X. No luck. > "libglx.a" is unresolved. > d. That is in XFree86-server, and I try a verify that works, but the file > is definetly not there. > e. I remove XFree86 and XFree86-server, and then reinstall them. > f. my usb mouse is not activated, which makes X not so much fun. I try a > reboot, still nothing. > g. I bring up X and use mousedrake. I'm able to select the wheel mouse, > and restart X. Now the mouse works again. > h. I notice that rpmdrake and MandrakeUpdate don't work because URPM.so > is having a problem loading librpm-4.0.4 (that's close to the name, I > didn't write it down. oops). I figure out that the upgrade didn't update > rpm. > i. I try to manually install rpm. It has a long list of dependencies, > but I get them all and the install starts. > j. Bad. Not all of the rpms fail, but enough do: rpm, libstdc++5-devel, > kernelheaders, libbinutils2, binutils, gcc, gcc-c++. These complain that > there are "MD5 sun mismatch" with cpio. > k. not rpm doesn't even recognize -qilp as an option. Ugh. It's hosed. > Now I can't do anything. > l. In exasperation, I shutdown. The shutdown fails during umount. > m. I hit the reset button. > > Overall, I'm really glad I decided to not mess with my existing year old > 8.2 installation. > > Scott Carlson > > PS. I don't subscribe to the list. No time at this point. :( > I am willing to try and answer questions if I can help
