On Wed 12 Jan, Wookey wrote:
> On Tue 11 Jan, Russell King - ARM Linux Admin wrote:
> > Wookey wrote
> > > message it goes back to the select packages to install window, and I am
> > > stuck going round and round in a loop, never being able to install any
> > > packages.
> >
> > Does it say anything on the logging ttys?
>
> OK, I've dine it again to get this right, and this time (despite having
> done it at least 8 times already) I got slightly further than before:
> ...
> VT 2 VT 0 (main install screen)
> new stage 5 Header error: 'unable to read header at 604440'.
> Coponent Warnings (29 of 459 packages...)
> new stage 6 'Components to Install' chooser dialog
> verifying dependencies
> Dep: bash needs filutils
> Dep: kernelcfg needs python
> Dep: kernelcfg needs pythonlibs
> Dep: newt needs slang
> Dep: zsh needs fileutils
> 'Unresolved dependencies' box (giving these 5 deps)
> I enter 'no' here.
> new stage 7
> net shared path is not set
> 'Install Log' dialog
> unmounting all filesystems
> formatting filesystems
> mounting all filesystems
> mounting sdb2 on /mnt/ as ext2
> rpm database openned
> pre-installing *beforeskel*
> Installing *beforeskel*
> Installing base
> 'Install of fpem failed'
> Installing other package
> rpm database closed
> unmounted filesystems
> new stage 6
>
> Now we are back to 'the components to install' windows again and can only
> go round in circles.
>
> I downloaded a new copy of the fpem-2.0-1.arm.rpm but got the same
> complaint. Is there something else other than the frp, rpm itself that
> might cause this error?
OK, answering my own mails: It turned out to be a corrupt hdlist file, so
you can ignore this prob now (although the 'won't boot a kernel' problem
with my other system remains).
Next I get as far as all tha packages installing, time, mouse, keyboard
config, then
new stage 9
kernel 2.0.36 installed
loading module /.etc/loop.o
bin/insmod 'insmod' '/etc/loop.o'
At this point the main window says 'bin/insmod returned error 2'
Fiddling at the prompt the problem seems to be that there isn't an
'/etc/loop.o'. The only one I can find is in
/mnt/lib/modules/2.0.36/block/
Is this something missing from the initial ramdisc or is the installer
confused?
Wookey
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