Re: Re[6]: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made it to the package selection screen. i found that it wouldn't let > me install everything I wanted. Even though I had 2 gig of /usr. I went > back to the filesystem screen and deleted /home, resized /usr to 2.2 G > and then recreated /home. I reformatted all partitions. When i got back > to the select individual packages screen I would get the message 'Died' > whenever I selected a package. I found myself in this state on more than > one install. Yep, we have problems when you go back at some points of DrakX. > I decided to try automated install. - this time I got the 'missing > Basesystem' error. followed by the expected 'divide by Zero' error. Just tested it. With 2 Go as '/'. No problem for me. > i went back and tried expert mode again. this time I only had to set the > mount points. the install went ok. I chose to try XFree 4.0. I have a > voodoo3 card. XFree failed miserably. I couldn't readily see how to > switch back to 3.3 - I remember seeing it in the XFree 4.0 docs at one > point but I decided to reinstall and select 3.3 this time. It took 3 > tries to get a new install again. I had the same problems. You selected the "expert" class. Don't expect too much easiness in that mode!! > The machine is SCSI - ncr/symbios 53c875, voodoo3, and an ethernet. are > pretty much it. Some special problems with some SCSI configurations. But we can't do much with those problems without having the same hardware configuration problems, so either you can provide us with more information, or the bug is buried for now.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau
Re[6]: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
On 06 Jun 2000 17:23:52 +0200 you wrote: > Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 06 Jun 2000 11:10:46 +0200 you wrote: > > > > This was the ISO from free.fr. > > I will try downloading again. > > d'better d/l the final now :-). > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau I downloaded the ISO again. I still had the same problem. I then made a new boot disk. That fixed the problem, sort of. I made it to the package selection screen. i found that it wouldn't let me install everything I wanted. Even though I had 2 gig of /usr. I went back to the filesystem screen and deleted /home, resized /usr to 2.2 G and then recreated /home. I reformatted all partitions. When i got back to the select individual packages screen I would get the message 'Died' whenever I selected a package. I found myself in this state on more than one install. I decided to try automated install. - this time I got the 'missing Basesystem' error. followed by the expected 'divide by Zero' error. i went back and tried expert mode again. this time I only had to set the mount points. the install went ok. I chose to try XFree 4.0. I have a voodoo3 card. XFree failed miserably. I couldn't readily see how to switch back to 3.3 - I remember seeing it in the XFree 4.0 docs at one point but I decided to reinstall and select 3.3 this time. It took 3 tries to get a new install again. I had the same problems. it's interesting that in order to install 7.1 I have to learn the install script's bad behaviors and work around them.The 7.0 installation is much more robust than 7.1. i've installed 7.0 on 2 laptops and 2 desktops with only one problem - overlapping partitions, on one of the laptops. I would suggest thoroughly testing the install. The machine I have is nothing special and these bugs are easy to come across. All I have done that is of any special interest is resize my partitions from the automatic allocation. and select additional individual packages that I want installed. that, and a bit of jumping around should break the install quite readily. I learned the shortcomings of the partition tool with 7.0, overlapping partitions and what not. So I'm very careful to delete trailing partitions before resizing an earlier partition. I've heard this was fixed but I don't trust it. The machine is SCSI - ncr/symbios 53c875, voodoo3, and an ethernet. are pretty much it. Eric
Re: Re[4]: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 06 Jun 2000 11:10:46 +0200 you wrote: > > This was the ISO from free.fr. > I will try downloading again. d'better d/l the final now :-). -- Guillaume Cottenceau
Re: Re[2]: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My motherboard is a Tyan tiger. I'd be surprised if > that was it. - It's an old board. > > I checked the logs. I don't have them with me but I can > give some details. > > After Partitioning and formating I got the error > package basesystem not found. I checked the perl > script and this is definitely meant to die. > > After that trying to procede will result in a divide by > zero error in the drive space allocation code. It looks > like the initialization code got skipped because of the previous error. both errors lead to the same conclusion: it cannot find the packages. i don't know how you can investigate more.. did you try the ISO? sounds like a corrupt hdlist or something.. i don't really know.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau
Re[2]: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
My motherboard is a Tyan tiger. I'd be surprised if that was it. - It's an old board. I checked the logs. I don't have them with me but I can give some details. After Partitioning and formating I got the error package basesystem not found. I checked the perl script and this is definitely meant to die. After that trying to procede will result in a divide by zero error in the drive space allocation code. It looks like the initialization code got skipped because of the previous error. On someone elses suggestion I tried using fdisk to create my partitions. - no difference in behavior. The iso snapshot is from free.fr. - I realize that the ext disk image is hosed but I don't get that far along. Eric On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:35:38 +0200 you wrote: > BS''D > > > The beta 3 snapshot won't install on my dual pentium II machine. > > > Any idea's? > > which motherboard do you use? > I had similar problems with a "SuperMICR" dual board with Adaptec SCSI > controller onboard. After looking for pci devices the installer dies. > RedHat 6.2 seems to install everything but dies at the last stage of the > install process. Actually I tried to run Debian, Stormix, RedHat and Mandrake > on it ... but all attempts vanished. > > Best, > > Daniel.
Re: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
BS''D > The beta 3 snapshot won't install on my dual pentium II machine. > Any idea's? which motherboard do you use? I had similar problems with a "SuperMICR" dual board with Adaptec SCSI controller onboard. After looking for pci devices the installer dies. RedHat 6.2 seems to install everything but dies at the last stage of the install process. Actually I tried to run Debian, Stormix, RedHat and Mandrake on it ... but all attempts vanished. Best, Daniel.
Same here. Was: [Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:17:05PM -0400, Eric wrote: > > The beta 3 snapshot won't install on my dual pentium II machine. > after clicking ok on the first window of the install packages section, > I get a 'divide by 0' error window. I found no errors in any of the log > windows except for one saying that it couldn't find kernel-smp. I had some kind of same experience. that was weird: Have a Tekram U2W controller and a IBM DNES 9.1 gb disk. The following happened (expert mode) in the partitioning tool, i cleared all partitions from my air installation and made new ones, this time including a /boot. Installing process went fine, but could not reboot because my root partition is not the root partition that was installed with lilo. Had to boot with tom's and repair/install lilo. Ok so far, due to some issues i decided to reinstall again, and now it begins. After the first 7.1 installation, my scsi controller complains while booting up with something like "expecting sectors xyz", that means, disk was formatted with different controller. I had to make some tweaks in the tekram bios. (enable 13H, disable >1GB. Why? worked with air) With or without that tweak, i was not able to install 7.1 again. After partitioning and selecting mount points, i got something like "no base packages found". Hitting "back" brings me to partition tool, hitting "done" again brings me to that "divide by 0" error. Wrote fresh dos partition table to the disk, no success. Tried that several times with different setups and configs. Air CD shows the same error. I had the idea to install something like a partition skeleton with a non-mandrake partition tool, i did that with an old redhat distro cd. Then booted with 7.1 again, i only had to set up the mountpoints. Installation works then. Thats why i'm writing from hydrogen now ;). It selected the wrong root partition for lilo again tho, but thats not that bad, if one has tom's handy. I have a feeling that partition tool is buggy. It did something bad to my harddisk, dunno exactly. Spent a whole weekend with that, i'm glad everything seems fine now. -cteg erm, forgot to mention, i don't have beta3 and decided not to post my experiences because my beta is kind of "outdated" (b2). After reading the above email i thought maybe the bug is still there. -- damn i'm looking good
[Cooker] Beta3 dies on install.
The beta 3 snapshot won't install on my dual pentium II machine. after clicking ok on the first window of the install packages section, I get a 'divide by 0' error window. I found no errors in any of the log windows except for one saying that it couldn't find kernel-smp. Any idea's? Eric
