Re: How to install Champion 1.2.1 by copying files to hard disk


Subject: Re: How to install Champion 1.2.1 by copying files to hard disk
From: Michael Payne (tanker1812@charter.net)
Date: Mon Feb 26 2001 - 04:31:08 MST


I am having the exact same problem. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Michael Payne
>on 2/25/01 3:58 PM, Conrad M. Hirano at conrad_hirano@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>>> Now I wish to erase LinuxPPC and install Champion server 1.2.1 (since I
>>> think I will like it better than LinuxPPC's distribution).
>>>
>>> However, I cannot figure out how to copy the files correctly. Or the proper
>>> set-up of the hard disk path (when the installer asks where the install
>>> files are on the hard disk).
>>>
>>> Any advice? If the hard disk install is too difficult, I am more than happy
>>> to install over FTP. Does anyone know of a server that will allow this? And
>>> which path to what file do I enter?
>>
>> Installing from the hard disk is straightforward and much faster than doing
>> it over FTP.
>>
>> I've never had a YellowDog CD, so I'm assuming here that you can access all
>> its contents via the Mac OS. (If you can't access those files on the CD,
>> you can always download them via FTP.) Somewhere on the CD, there's a
>> folder called YellowDog which contains the folders base, RPMS, and
>> instimage. Just drag the YellowDog folder to the top level of an HFS
>> partition.
>>
>> You just need to tell the installer which partition the files are on, e.g.
>> /dev/sda5. There's no need to specify a path.
>
>Hi Conrad, thanks for responding!
>
>I copied the YellowDog folder into the only Mac partition on my hard disk.
>
>I then used BootX to bring up the linux installer, as per the YellowDog
>instructions. All goes well, and I answer Hard Disk for the media.
>
>After it asks what type of media, it asks: "What partition and directory on
>that partition hold the Yellowdog/RPMS and YellowDog/base directories?
>
>It has all of the non swap partitions listed. I select /dev/sda6, which is
>the hfs Mac partition. For the "Directory holding Yellow Dog:", I leave the
>"/" which is already there.
>
>It then says: Loading second stage RAM Disk
>
>Then the following:
>
>bunzip2: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0:cannot open shared
>object file: No such file or directory (this is repeated three times)
>install exited abnormally
>sending termination signals...done
>sending kill signals...done
>unmounting filesystems...
> /tmp/image
> /proc
>you may safely reboot your system
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Jim
>Jim Krenz
>Lecter@mac.com



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