Subject: Re: Install Problems YDL2.1 on a beige G3
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 18:03:21 MST
How big is your drive and what is the root partition size? I remember people
having problems earlier installing on powerwave machines since the root
partition was too small (hard disk is too small ... 850MB?). What type of
install are you choosing (Everything, Home/Office, etc.)? You may want to try
a 'Base' install first just to see if it works ...
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Thursday 03 January 2002 07:34, you wrote:
> Trying to install on a mac clone (powerwave) (using bootx with both linux
> kernels and the text based install). However, I can't get a successful
> install. It gets through the partition and format successfully, but then
> bombs out when trying to transfer the packages. I get a 'must correct
> manually' error and subsequent failures.
>
> I have tried some debugging. Just before it goes into the package
> installation, I have looked on the other consoles. No real obvious
> warnings. If I look around the partition (mounted on /tmp/root) there are
> files there. If I use /sbin/parted with a check command, it complains about
> being unmounted uncleanly. I have tried dismounting the partition and
> reformatting using parted mkfs. It then checks ok. I reboot the system and
> go through the install without changing the disk partitions and the same
> thing happens.
>
> I've worked on Unix systems for years, but this is my first indepth
> exposure to system setup/admin.
>
> Any suggestions?
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