Subject: Re: problem with /usr/sbin while installing on a 5400
From: Stefan Jeglinski (jeglin@4pi.com)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2000 - 14:47:28 MDT
>>It is the 4th time I try to install Yellow dog Linux and I have always the
>>same problem : the /usr/sbin directory is missing (while it exists on
>>/mnt/usr/sbin) and that causes /usr/sbin/mouseconfig to fail, providing the
>>error "An error occured during the step 'Configure mouse' of the install."
>>
>>I have a 5400/180 with 32 Mo RAM. I use the cdrom to install.
>>I've already got the last ramdisk.image.gz on the ftp serveur.
>>
>>My partitions are :
>>hda5 Apple_HFS 1,0G
>>hda6 root 500M
>>hda7 swap 48M
>>hda8 usr 300M
>>hda9 home 177,5M
>>
>
>Your usr partition is too small...the YDL installer is sticking /usr/sbin in
>/mnt becuase /mnt is not on the /usr partition (It's on / "root").
>The solution would be to repartition the drive or switch partitions
>between root and usr...
Interesting. I can't comment on the /usr partition being too small,
but I did have -exactly- the same thing happen to me on a
PowerTowerPro with a PowerLogix upgrade card. And when that part of
the install barfed, so did -parts- (but not -all-) of the rest of the
install.
Except for swap, I have one partition, /, so YDL was free to make
/usr as big as it needed. My drive was only 1Gig in size, though;
however, I think the issue may be with the installer itself, because
I have now pretty much got everything on there and working (tight
though) through manual intervention.
The first thing -I- noticed after the install failure was no symlink
for the mouse device. Check /dev and create mouse -> adbmouse if it
is not there. Then try mouseconfig again.
I dicked with this and other small issues for -2 days- after running
the installer. I finally got it working, but I didn't keep notes, a
sure measure of my overconfidence at being able to navigate and
figure Linux out :-). So I can't remember if the mouse device stuff
was the primary problem. But it's now working, including X and KDE.
I'm still reserving judgement on the YDL installer after the matter.
Stefan Jeglinski
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