Hello Thomas,
You have not specified which version of Dragora you are trying to
install, so I assume it is dragora-3.0-beta1.
Good to know that you want to install Dragora on a 1996 laptop. For
this you need the two ISOs, the live edition and the ISO containing the
packages, the installer tries to look for the packages inside the
"packages" directory.
I tell you that Dragora 3 beta1 was released in mid-October 2019, since
then many changes have happened, for the better of course. What I am
going to do is also provide a DVD containing everything, both the live
system and the packages. Apart from this, I will be testing everything
in virtual and non-virtual machine (under old computers I own), in order
to guarantee the installation as much as possible.
I'm aiming to publish the next beta (beta2) which is already more
complete and secure than beta1, this for mid March if everything goes
well, so I recommend you to wait a little bit.. if someone wants to
help, welcome. :-)
El 2021-02-21 20:35, Thomas Sirack escribió:
Hello folks,
I intend to install Dragora onto an old laptop I intend to get soon.
Being
from 1996, the laptop has no USB ports and only contains a CD-ROM
drive.
However, doing some testing in a virtual machine to test the distro for
the
laptop's hardware revealed a problem. After partitioning the disk, then
running the dragora-install program, it prompted me to insert the
source
media containing the packages. However, I could not normally eject the
boot
disc from the virtual machine. Even when I forced it to, and then put
in
the package disc, it didn't work. I kept getting various errors, such
as
that the program could not find the source for the new disc, or that it
had
tried to load files on the boot CD that could not be found because it
wasn't there.
I also tried this on real hardware using a 2009 netbook, without using
the
USB ports for the packages, but got the same result.
Am I missing something? Or is there another method of loading the
packages
that I'm not aware of?
Any possible solutions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Thomas
