Subject: Re: Ridiculous error messages from YD installation...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 20:33:53 MST
Ok, I repeated the install a couple times and it finally took. All the
packages installed (but I think the installer ignored my selection of
"Basic" and went straight for the Development version. Now I've rebooted
the machine and its hanging on fsck. Get's about 73% of the way through
and then just keeps hitting on the disk with no progress.
I really don't think Yellow Dog is ready for prime time yet. It just
shouldn't be this difficult.
-- John
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, John Nelson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:52:29 -0500 (EST)
> From: John Nelson <john@computation.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Ridiculous error messages from YD installation...
>
>
> Now I'm really getting frustrated with this thing...
>
> I installed 256 meg of RAM into my 8500 and managed to get past the
> formating issues I had previous. So far so good. So now I get to the
> "mount points" screen and use my 1 gig drive for "/". Just keep it
> simple. Now I click on "done" ...
>
> and I get an error message that says something like "Error: undefined
> type". Say what? What "type" have I not defined? I answered every
> question the installer asked me and define my boot loader, swap and main
> partition. These partitions formatted fine. There has been no
> opportunity for me to define a "type" anywhere in here.
>
> So I click on "continue" despite the warning that things might be
> unstable and go to install packages, and the installer starts installing
> the packages... and it immediately pops up an error panel that says:
>
> Error occured
> ---------------
>
> ... and that's all. No error message. Just the fact that an error
> occured. Underneath the panel I see that it was trying to install a
> package called "database". At this point I'm in an infinite loop and have
> to shut down with the power button.
>
> Sheeze this sucks... I can't believe that the Redhat installer (which
> someone claimed this was based on) was this bad!
>
> So anyone have any ideas on how to fix this and get Yellow Dog to install?
>
> -- John
>
>
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