Re: Ridiculous error messages from YD installation...


Subject: Re: Ridiculous error messages from YD installation...
From: Dave Braford (braford@hanon-mckendry.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 06:53:17 MST


Oh yeah...you're gonna want a larger drive.
Make sure you give yourself 128MB of swap as well.
It saves future hassle.
Good luck.
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 05:31 PM, John Nelson wrote:

> Hey Braford.... well my suspicion is that my disk space is too small.
> Even though I install a small base system on the 1 gig drive, my
> suspicion is that YD wants more. What a great excuse to buy a larger
> disk drive!
>
> To answer your questions, the DIMMS are the same, text based installer,
> retail CD's.
>
> Now where's that credit card!?
>
> -- John
>
>
> Dave Braford wrote:
>
>> More info on your specific setup-
>> Example questions:
>> Are you using fpm DIMMS of the same variety ?
>> Using BootX and the text-based installer ?
>> Did you download the CD or purchase it ?
>> If you DL'ed, make sure it's valid via checksum.
>>
>> YDL is VERY ready for prime-time. I use the very same
>> box (among others) for print, file, mail and web services
>> without so much as a peep.
>>
>> BTW-If you can, get a larger drive (< 2GB) and install everything.
>> You don't have to run all the services, but it may save you headaches
>> with dependencies later.
>> On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 10:33 PM, John Nelson wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> -- _____________________________________________________
>>
>> John T. Nelson
>> President | Computation.com Inc
>> mail: | john@computation.com
>> company: | http://www.computation.com/
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>>
>>
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