When I did a hard drive install using the boot floppy for hard disk
installation, I got the same X errors described by Phil. There were
also a few problems with package installation:
- Error installing package procmail-3.13.1-6mdk - it turns out that it
isn't even in the Mandrake/RPMS/ dir of the install files. What is
this package? Do I need it? I haven't had problems using my computer
without it.
- Error installing package initscripts-4.97-33mdk - I needed to
install this manually afterwards because Linux wouldn't boot without
it--I had to go to a separate boot disk to do it, then chroot to where
Linux was installed. It wouldn't work when I tried installing it with
rpm at first, and it was telling me to run msec or something. So I
did that (set the security level to 3) even though the installation
process should have done this automatically I think, and then it
installed fine.
- Error installing packages Mesa-3.1-14mdk and
Mesa-common-devel-3.1-14mdk - I tried installing these manually
afterwards and it's a bit weird. The Mesa rpm needs Mesa-common to
install, while the Mesa-common rpm likewise needs Mesa. The same
thing went for Mesa-devel and Mesa-common-devel. I just forcefully
installed them all.
But I have otherwise gotten almost everything else working with my
installation.
-p
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 5/9/00, 10:01:27 AM, "Alex Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Fwd: [Cooker] Auto install missing step?:
> just ftp'd last night from sunsite.uio.no and had excatly the same
results.
> Original Message Follows
> From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] Auto install missing step?
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 04:52:59 -0700
> Hi,
>Just completed an ftp "automated" install from rpmfind.net and it
didn't
> ask
> to make a boot disk, went directly from adding a user account to boot
> loader.
>Then when X tried to start after first reboot, complains of
> "failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> fatal server error
> could not open default font 'fixed;"
>But there were a couple problems with packages during the
> install, / is at 61% use.
> --
> Phil Lavigna
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/
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