I ran it twice, just to make sure I didn't miss something along the way. Installed 3.0 RC2 20050609 (downloaded ISO tonight).
First the good news: This is the first version to successfully complete EVMS scan for partitioning, and to complete (mostly) the install process on my K63-450 system. The previous problems I had with hard drives on the secondary controller requiring DMA to be disabled during install also appears resolved. Now the not-so-good: The install log reported some kind of keyboard issue, though i didn't see a warning on the screen. Several of the mirrors (especially in North America) reported problems during the install, mostly things like invalid directories, missing directory, or unable to change to a directory. I installed twice, 400 packages to install the first time, 369 the second (I made custom choices, I just decided to do less the second time in case it failed again). It went through the pre-cache stage for all packages both times. Then, at the installation stage, it seemed to stop installing after 4 or 5 packages were installed. No error message was displayed. If I had not been watching the installation, i wouldn't have realized that it appeared to stop early and proceeded to the next step of the install. During the finalizing of modules at the end, the network module came back with an error and a traceback. I selected Skip and things seemed to go fine after that. And, the biggest problem, after the install, the grub boot loader will not complete loading. GRUB is displayed, and then nothing else, the system just freezes. Grub is installed on the MBR of hda, and / boot was formatted as ext2. It's been a while -- anyone have a good way to reinstall grub from the rescue CD? :) I've never instaslled grub from scratch before. Anyway, that's it for today's adventure installing Trustix 3. It's getting a lot closer! I can hardly wait for it to install all the way so I can start using it. I've been trying to push back a project waiting for 3.0 to install and work for me. At this point, I'm probably going to have to put my project on 2.2. Oh, I tried to save the logs to floopy, but I kept getting errors telling me it failed, and that either my floppy or the drive is probably bad. I doubt the floppies are bad, however, considering the age of the drive, it is possible that the drive is bad. I don't know.. if it is, this is the first time it has failed for me. Though, I probably use the floppy once or twice a year, so that isn't saying much. Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
