Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: > > >> Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size > >> partitions > >> did you use? > > > > > > I used the "erase hard drive option," which appears to just partition > > everything using the defaults. > > I tried messing around with the custom partitioning a bit, but I would > > always get a "no bootstrap" error when I try to save the partitioning > > scheme. > > If anyone could give me a fix for this, but also give me a good way to > > partition a 38GB hard drive for Mandrake, please tell me. > > I am sure Stew will have better ideas, but I have encountered that > dreaded "no bootstrap" error (stew it is darn irritating). The reason > you get that is because you have no free space less that 10MB (or maybe > it is 1MB). > > If you create a partition table like any sane individual you would > create partitions for whatever you need on the MacOS side, and then a /, > /boot, /usr (maybe), /home, /opt (if you have a really big disk), > /usr/local (if you are an old timer and don't use /opt. Of course you > don't need all those, but those are the more popular. Then you have > filled the disk with all of these partitions with no free space (after > all that is what the partition game is all about, making sure that all > the disk is allocated). > > The Mandrake installer, however complains bitterly if you didn't leave > any free space for it to "automagically" create a bootstrap partition > (which will be used by ybin). As best as I understand it, you (the user) > can't create this bootstrap partion, the install has to do it. > > > > So make sure you have some free space at the end, if you are manually > partitioning. > You can create it manually. The tools are there, and I've done it myself. I guess I didn't really envision people creating all their linux partitions outside of the installer, since it's designed to do that. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size partitions did you use? I used the "erase hard drive option," which appears to just partition everything using the defaults. I tried messing around with the custom partitioning a bit, but I would always get a "no bootstrap" error when I try to save the partitioning scheme. If anyone could give me a fix for this, but also give me a good way to partition a 38GB hard drive for Mandrake, please tell me. I am sure Stew will have better ideas, but I have encountered that dreaded "no bootstrap" error (stew it is darn irritating). The reason you get that is because you have no free space less that 10MB (or maybe it is 1MB). If you create a partition table like any sane individual you would create partitions for whatever you need on the MacOS side, and then a /, /boot, /usr (maybe), /home, /opt (if you have a really big disk), /usr/local (if you are an old timer and don't use /opt. Of course you don't need all those, but those are the more popular. Then you have filled the disk with all of these partitions with no free space (after all that is what the partition game is all about, making sure that all the disk is allocated). The Mandrake installer, however complains bitterly if you didn't leave any free space for it to "automagically" create a bootstrap partition (which will be used by ybin). As best as I understand it, you (the user) can't create this bootstrap partion, the install has to do it. So make sure you have some free space at the end, if you are manually partitioning. I hope this helps, Craig...
Re: about install
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, eric coin wrote: > hello > > i have download ISO for ppc. > > i try to install, but i get pb with install-gui. i pass it with using > install-gui-benh > > but i don t recognize my patition (on FHS). i stop it before install system. > > i should retry with only one disk. > > Why it can create or edit partition ? > > More info please. What machine? What's FHS? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
about install
hello i have download ISO for ppc. i try to install, but i get pb with install-gui. i pass it with using install-gui-benh but i don t recognize my patition (on FHS). i stop it before install system. i should retry with only one disk. Why it can create or edit partition ? Best regards
Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size partitions did you use? I used the "erase hard drive option," which appears to just partition everything using the defaults. I tried messing around with the custom partitioning a bit, but I would always get a "no bootstrap" error when I try to save the partitioning scheme. If anyone could give me a fix for this, but also give me a good way to partition a 38GB hard drive for Mandrake, please tell me. Missed you on IRC, I was wondering why you opted to use a 6 ramdisk? No reason in particular. I saw that you needed extra in order to load the second and third CDs, so I though I'd give it a bit of extra room. (You must understand, I am a complete newbie to Linux and UNIX, except for a bit of tinkering around on the OS X terminal.) -Micah On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 05:47 AM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: OK I've searched the archives, can't seem to find a fix, so here goes... Alright, I start installing, and it installs all of the packages fine, and then the problems occur. After i have entered the root password, created my password, and set the auto-login, it tries to install the bootloader. At first i get an error box that says: "Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: :Cannot create temp file. aborting. ybin: An error occured while building first stage loader. aborting..." After dismissing this box, the following text shows up in the background: "Can't do inplace edit on /mnt/etc/modules.conf: No space left on device at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MDK/Common/File.pm line 226." Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size partitions did you use? Missed you on IRC, I was wondering why you opted to use a 6 ramdisk? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:18:26PM -0500, Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: > OK I've searched the archives, can't seem to find a fix, so here goes... > Alright, I start installing, and it installs all of the packages fine, > and then the problems occur. After i have entered the root password, > created my password, and set the auto-login, it tries to install the > bootloader. > At first i get an error box that says: > "Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: > :Cannot create temp file. aborting. > ybin: An error occured while building first stage loader. aborting..." > > After dismissing this box, the following text shows up in the > background: > "Can't do inplace edit on /mnt/etc/modules.conf: No space left on > device at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MDK/Common/File.pm line 226." > > Any ideas? Shoulds to me like the root partition (i.e. /) is out of space. How much space did you allocate to it? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche
Re: Oldworld install problems
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Ben Donovan wrote: > I haven't noticed any problems with it. Can you suggest a way of checking > it, or is the only way to remove chips until it works? > > I know there are bootable memcheck programs for x86. Don't know that I've seen PPC versions. Might have something to do with your upgrade card also. You definitely need the ramdisk to be able to proceed. You could try playing with ramdisk_size, making something less like 36000 and see if that does anything for you. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: 9.1 Installation problems...
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Micah Buckley-Farlee wrote: > OK I've searched the archives, can't seem to find a fix, so here goes... > Alright, I start installing, and it installs all of the packages fine, > and then the problems occur. After i have entered the root password, > created my password, and set the auto-login, it tries to install the > bootloader. > At first i get an error box that says: > "Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: > :Cannot create temp file. aborting. > ybin: An error occured while building first stage loader. aborting..." > > After dismissing this box, the following text shows up in the > background: > "Can't do inplace edit on /mnt/etc/modules.conf: No space left on > device at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MDK/Common/File.pm line 226." > Sounds pretty straightforward - you're out of space. What size partitions did you use? Missed you on IRC, I was wondering why you opted to use a 6 ramdisk? -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
