Linux install on a simple machine should be easier that Windoze, but apparently not on my computer. I remember Mandrake 7 was smooth as butta', but Mandrake 8.1 won't simply install and now Red Hat behaves in the same way...
I have a Highpoint 370 RAID controller, but I disabled it in the BIOS, so it is not even seen. My computer runs a PIII 1 GB CPU, with 512 MB RAM. IDE1 master : IBM 60 GXP 40GB (new, unparitioned) IDE1 slave : HP9300 CD-RW burner IDE2 master: Creative DVD drive IDE2 slave : none IDE3& 4 on HPT370 disabled. Graphics : ASUS V7700 AGP (probed correctly) Monitor : Sony Multiscan 420GS (probed correctly) Sound : Soundblaster Live Network : NIC1 in DHCP for cable modem connection, NIC2 static for LAN. I boot from the CD (DVD drive or HP9300 burner), choose a very simple workstation KDE environment, autoformat on an empty drive, (50MB ext3 for /boot; 2000MB ext3 fixed for /; and 1024MB for swap; the remaining 36000 are free space. I choose GRUB, to be installed on the MBR, but LILO has the same problem: Up to now install exited ~randomly telling me "abnormal install termination - receiving signal 11", but since I skip X configuration, the install process goes 99.5% normal until install completes, and I am prompted to create a boot floppy. Although there is a formatted empty floppy in the drive, I get a message "boot floppy could not be created", and all I can do is "skip the floppy creation", after what I am prompted to reboot. However, nothing appears in the MBR either since "operating system is not found" as I reboot. (boot sequence CDROM / HDD-0 / Floppy) Alternatively, the installation crashed exactly as I try to create the boot floppy, and I was able to capture the anacdump.txt to the floppy I had prepared for making my boot disk... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 61, in execWithRedirect raise RuntimeError, command + " can not be run" RuntimeError: /sbin/grub-install can not be run I noticed a few tings in the "anacdump.txt" log (I will skip the normal events, 99.5%). Apparently GRUB wasn't installed... along with some other (critical ?) packages. Do I have a bad CD ??? Any other idea ? I cleared the MBR a few times with a win98 boot floppy (fdisk /mbr), and tried to install Mandrake8.1, which writes LILO without problem to the MBR. Any help very much appreciated ! -- ------------------------------- Lorenzo Sandini ... Installing modutils. Installing ncurses. unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/terminfo/a/att610-w;3c4b49fe: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor Installing info. ... Installing grep. Installing ash. /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.64424: grep: command not found /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.64424: grep: command not found Installing dhcpcd. Installing grub. Installing gzip. ... Installing tar. Installing tcsh. /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79131: grep: command not found /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.79131: grep: command not found Installing textutils. Installing dev. ... Installing pygnome-libglade. Installing qt. /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50836: grep: command not found Installing tcl. ... Installing sane-backends. /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59026: grep: command not found Installing kdegraphics. ... Installing bc. /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26795: grep: command not found Installing dump. ... Installing wine. /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.78039: grep: command not found ---------------------------------------------- Lorenzo Sandini Kirurgian Klinikka Kansanterveyden Tutkimuslaitos Kuopion Yliopisto 70200 Kuopio SUOMI-FINLAND +358.17.162.946 +358.17.162.940 (FAX) ------------------------------------------------ http://kotisivu.raketti.net/brokenbone/erik GSM-050.359.28.31 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
