Re: [Cooker] Problems installing the betas
Dave Cowern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did try using ext2 and ext3 for the / and /usr partitions. No dice... same problems locking up on a random package. On closer inspection, the CDs I'm using are NOT the same brand as the 8.1 disks I have working. I'll go out tomorrow and try a different brand of CDR. I'm still open to any suggestions anyone has. :-) TIA -- Dave Quite strange... you may also try an other type of install (network) or /images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19* maybe you'd have more chance.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
Re: [Cooker] Problems installing the betas
Slight Update: I did try using ext2 and ext3 for the / and /usr partitions. No dice... same problems locking up on a random package. On closer inspection, the CDs I'm using are NOT the same brand as the 8.1 disks I have working. I'll go out tomorrow and try a different brand of CDR. I'm still open to any suggestions anyone has. :-) TIA -- Dave On Saturday 23 February 2002 22:24, you wrote: Hey all, I've been having a lot of problems installing the betas. Since beta 1, I'd get past the package selection to the actual installing of packages. It'd get through maybe 10 - 20 packages before locking up completely. Switching screens to see whats going on, I find that its trying to fetch an RPM from the CD when it fails. At first I figured that it might just be bad media so I tried different brands of CDRs, same deal. Then, I thought it might be something with the CD burning program so I tried xroast (I was using xroaster so I tried gcombust). Same deal. Then I realized they were basically just both front ends using the same CD burning utility. My working MDK8.1 CDs were burnt using Nero (under windows) so I tried doing that on the same media as the MDK8.1 CDs. Same deal. I then thought it could be something with my CD or DVD drive but the install fails the same way on both. I have a TDK121032A CDR and generic 10x DVD drive thats identified as a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163. A install of MDK8.1 succedes 100% of the time on both. The weird thing is that on a whim I decided to try installing beta 3 under VMWare. The install ran like a champ... all the way to completion. The last thing I can think of might be that it might be a problem with ReiserFS which is what I'm using for all my partitions. I would try deleting my / and /usr partitions and reinstalling on ext3 to see if that worked but I don't have any more time to fiddle with it this weekend. Has anyone ran across any similar problems? I didn't see any problems related to this in the bugzilla database and I wanted to try to narrow it down a little bit before I posted a formal report there. Thanks! -- Dave
[Cooker] Problems installing the betas
Hey all, I've been having a lot of problems installing the betas. Since beta 1, I'd get past the package selection to the actual installing of packages. It'd get through maybe 10 - 20 packages before locking up completely. Switching screens to see whats going on, I find that its trying to fetch an RPM from the CD when it fails. At first I figured that it might just be bad media so I tried different brands of CDRs, same deal. Then, I thought it might be something with the CD burning program so I tried xroast (I was using xroaster so I tried gcombust). Same deal. Then I realized they were basically just both front ends using the same CD burning utility. My working MDK8.1 CDs were burnt using Nero (under windows) so I tried doing that on the same media as the MDK8.1 CDs. Same deal. I then thought it could be something with my CD or DVD drive but the install fails the same way on both. I have a TDK121032A CDR and generic 10x DVD drive thats identified as a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163. A install of MDK8.1 succedes 100% of the time on both. The weird thing is that on a whim I decided to try installing beta 3 under VMWare. The install ran like a champ... all the way to completion. The last thing I can think of might be that it might be a problem with ReiserFS which is what I'm using for all my partitions. I would try deleting my / and /usr partitions and reinstalling on ext3 to see if that worked but I don't have any more time to fiddle with it this weekend. Has anyone ran across any similar problems? I didn't see any problems related to this in the bugzilla database and I wanted to try to narrow it down a little bit before I posted a formal report there. Thanks! -- Dave
