Subject: Re: Install Problems YDL2.1 on a beige G3
From: Brian Egeness (brianfe@ameritech.net)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 06:43:34 MST
on 1/4/02 7:34 PM, Don & Wendy Storey at dwstorey@mediaone.net 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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