Subject: Re: Install Problems YDL2.1 on a beige G3
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 19:29:43 MST
Have you tried any of the 'gui' install modes instead of the text installs?
Maybe they will be more descriptive ... The error message you are getting
seems to be pretty vague 'must correct manually'. Correct what?? :-)
Also, are you creating the partitions in Linux or from Mac OS? You should be
creating them from the installer. Try deleteing all existing partitons and
re-creating them in the installer. And also, what are your mount points for
the three partitions you have?
Sorry I am just shooting in the dark ... there is just too little info to
figure out what may be going wrong.
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Friday 04 January 2002 08:34, you wrote:
> 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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