Subject: Re: bootx and install hang
From: Lathe Gill (latheg@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 17:00:56 MDT
It occurs to me that this may be a problem with the scsi termination and/or
id's with the drives. That would explain the inconsistency with which the
drives appear. I will check into it. BTW everybody, if you have an old
quantum fireball drive, maxtor has diagrams of the jumpers at
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/
> From: Richard McLaren <richard_mclaren2@hotmail.com>
> Lathe:
>
> I went through all this too. I had to go back into MacOS and re-initialize
> the hard drive (I have a 2nd hard drive just for Linux), before proceeding
> with the installation. I had to do this several times before it "took".
>
> Finally I got YDL 2.0 running, but with hard drive errors. The hard drive
> crashed soon after and I had to replace it. The installation of YDL 2.0 on
> the replacement hard drive went almost flawlessly, so I never figured out if
> there was a problem with the YDL formating/installation program or just with
> my hard drive.
>
> Richard
>
>
>> From: Lathe Gill <latheg@bigfoot.com>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com, bugs@yellowdoglinux.com
>> Subject: bootx and install hang
>> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:50:32 -0700
>>
>> Well, the errata file bootx does install. However, it still doesn't see
>> both
>> disks in the install process, and when I finally choose an installation
>> type, it gives me the following page:
>>
>> "This module has suffered a FATAL ERROR! CHOOSE 'Continue' to go forward
>> (this is risky and may cause damage to your system), 'Quit' to abort the
>> installation, or "Debug" to enter the Python debugger.
>>
>> Please mail this message to bugs@yellowdoglinux.com
>>
>> Bug Report Traceback
>>
>> IOError [Errno 30] Read-only file system:
>> '/tmp/root/var/cache/yup/Yellow Dog Linux release 2.0-ppc/yup.db.stat"
>>
>> File "/usr/lib/yup/yupdbfile.py", line 127, in_init_self.stream =
>> open(self.filename, 'W')
>>
>> File "/usr/lib/yup/yupdb.py", line 1273, in UPdateDB
>> newdb = yupdbfile.dbfile(yupcfg.cfg.localdistrdir + "uyp.db.stat")
>>
>> File "/usr/lib/yi/packman.py", line 187, 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 56, in_call_return
>> self.configure(args)
>
>
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