Re: [Cooker] 8.2 install bugs (text mode)

2002-07-31 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy 

 p == pixel  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 had to use the shell to fdisk and repartion, then reboot and
 use existing partitions to fix it.

p you got
p 100 swap 490 / 410 /home

p what exactly would you do?

if the size leaves less than 600Mb, I scrap the idea of splitting the
/ and /home -- in the long run, it's far more trouble than it's worth.

For one thing, you end up having to move /tmp and /var into /home so
email, CUPS and other processing do not explode the volatile
directories.  Pretty soon, the drive is a jungle of symlinks moving
growing things out of / and into /home

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Re: [Cooker] 8.2 install bugs (text mode)

2002-07-30 Thread Pixel 

Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1) partition of a small (1G) disk is into 3 parts by default, which
 leaves a system partition that is dangerously small.  I had to use the
 shell to fdisk and repartion, then reboot and use existing
 partitions to fix it.

you got

100 swap
490 /
410 /home

what exactly would you do?

 
 2) After deselecting packages I get the dialog asking me to select
 bare minimum, with the third option saying no urpmi ... if you
 _don't_ take that third option (I took no options at all) the install
 fails; packages are attempting to open some sort of RPM database that
 doesn't exist, and the error causes the installer to segfault aborting
 the package. the installation asks if it's ok to skip it, but it
 doesn't matter which answer you give, it continues, aborting all
 subsequent installs.

can't reproduce

[Cooker] 8.2 install bugs (text mode)

2002-07-29 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy 


Some quirks and errata doing a bare minimal install on a fresh
machine in text mode.  Only the CUPS install trap is serious.

1) partition of a small (1G) disk is into 3 parts by default, which
leaves a system partition that is dangerously small.  I had to use the
shell to fdisk and repartion, then reboot and use existing
partitions to fix it.

2) After deselecting packages I get the dialog asking me to select
bare minimum, with the third option saying no urpmi ... if you
_don't_ take that third option (I took no options at all) the install
fails; packages are attempting to open some sort of RPM database that
doesn't exist, and the error causes the installer to segfault aborting
the package. the installation asks if it's ok to skip it, but it
doesn't matter which answer you give, it continues, aborting all
subsequent installs.

3) Correcting for (1) and (2), installation goes well except many
packages are looking for the US_en locale and none is installed; the
screen fills with the usual useing 'C' locale warnings, but nothing
breaks.

4) When we get to the system config listing keyboard, mouse and
printer, it says no printer, but clicking on this, I am offered the
chance to install one.  This machine is to be the printer server, so I
thought I'd save some time and install now ... bad move.  Installing
CUPS ends up pulling in a lot of the X11 system (why?) and after
configuring the printer, you enter into a loop where you select done
and it says configuring applications and then returns you to
configure another printer; there is no way out.

To correct for 4 I had to elect to change the printing system, and
chose to install LPRng; the LPRng dialog (with no printers configured)
let me back out.

5) after rebooting, I added the openssh RPMS; the installation does
not automatically generate the host key.  A minor point because, if
you're installing bare, no docs you can't expect hand-holding.

-- 
Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers.(Pablo Picasso)