Subject: Re: Pismo Install Oddity FYI & Workaround
From: Geert Janssens (geert.janssens3@pandora.be)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 04:45:14 MST
This is funny.
I had a similar experience. I downloaded the installer CD from the web
and burned it on a Windows machine. Each CD I burned failed, but a CD-RW
worked.
I'm still using that one, until I can figure out how to burn a CD that
works.
Geert
Evan Robinson wrote:
> I purchased YDL at MacWorld on Wednesday and had an interesting
> experience while installing it. On my pismo Powerbook (firewire) with
> 640MB RAM and a 20 GB internal HD, the installer would routinely crap
> out after I selected the packages I wanted installed with the following:
>
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error:
> '/tmp/root/var/cache/yup/YellowDow Linux release 2.1-ppc/stat'
>
> File "/usr/lib/yup/yupdb/py" line 1297, in UpdateDB
> open(yupcfg.cfg.localdistdir + 'stat', 'w')
>
> File "/usr/lib/yi/packman.py", line 183, in read_packages ptree.UpdateDB()
>
> File "/usr/lib/yi/packman.py", line 119 in configure
> ptree=self.read_packages()
>
> File "/usr/lib/yi/template.py", line 57, in __call__ return
> self.configure(args)
>
>
> It looked to me like the installer was having trouble reading or writing
> the install CD. So I tried another one. Same problem. I made sure the
> CD was readable by not only another Mac (desktop machine at work) but
> also mine by copying the entire CD to the internal HD. I sent a note to
> bugs@yellowdoglinux.com, but I figure they're all still at MacWorld.
>
> Finally, just as a lark, I duped the install CD onto a CD-RW (using an
> external FW CD-RW) and tried to install from that.
>
> It worked. And while I want to test the system for awhile before I
> declare this experiment a success, it looks good.
>
> So, if you see errors as I listed above, you might give another CD or
> even a copy of your CD a try (or maybe clean it, or try another CD drive
> if you have access to one, or ....)
>
> Evan
>
>
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>
>
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