Subject: Re: Install Problems YDL2.1 on a beige G3
From: Don & Wendy Storey (dwstorey@mediaone.net)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 18:34:20 MST
I have 2GB that I am partitioning with 10Mb bootloader, 256Mb for swap, and
the rest (about 1.7Gb) for the linux partition. This is on a 4Gb drive with
the other 2gb in macos partitions. I am trying to do the developmental
station load. I tried the base install with the same results (I was hoping
this would be a workaround). Oh by the way, I'm using a ram disk size of
64000 in bootx.
> From: Avinash Gupta <agupta@mediaone.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:03:21 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Install Problems YDL2.1 on a beige G3
>
> 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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