Subject: Re: bad discs / can't burn my own
From: Paul Cézanne (pZ@MacSpeech.com)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 15:04:45 MDT
>Paul Cézanne's bits of Fri, 21 Sep 2001 translated to:
>
>>I finally got a 2nd download and burn done. I used the mirror at ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/YellowDog/iso and grabbed the pomona-2.0-20010602-install.iso file. I burnt it, booted it, and huh? The exact same error message happened!
>>
>>>I'm installing yellowdoglinux 2.0 for PPC (for the first time, but I do have significant unix experience with 4.2bsd!) and I just got the following error from the installer:
>>>
>>>Bug Report Traceback
>>>
>>>OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/tmp/root/etc/'
>
>Just a guess, but the traceback seems to imply that the install is failing
>due to the fact that /tmp/root/etc already exists. Have you tried removing
>(or at least moving) /tmp/root ?
this is a fresh install, the previous step was formatting the disk! :-(
--pZ -- Paul Cezanne
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