Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:03:03 -0600 (MDT)
Let me check on some things and I'll get back to you.
Dan
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Dan Burcaw wrote:
>
> What site did you retrieve everything frm (specifically glibc-devel)?
>
> On
> Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Mike Engelhart wrote:
>
> > Nope. I even downloaded all the glibc RPM's again this morning using Fetch
> > (I had "Binary" selected for the transfer type)
> >
> > Here's the exact error:
> >
> > "glibc-devel at line 1412 does not exist"
> > then if hit OK, it says "glibc-devel at line 1420 does not exist"
> > and so on for about 5 more line numbers.
> >
> > In the background it says "failed: Is a Directory(21)" but it's kind of
> > chopped off on the screen because of the dialogs that the installer puts up
> > so I couldn't read the whole message.
> >
> > This was using the lastest ramdisk.image.gz from the updates folder. I also
> > tried the original one and the one that you're only supposed to use for the
> > CD install...
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > I'm installing onto a PowerCurve with a Newer MaxPowr G3 upgrade card which
> > was successfully running R4 with a 2.2.1 kernel prior to attempting this YDL
> > installation. I have 64MB RAM, a 6 GB SCSI hard disk with the following
> > partitions:
> > / 250MB
> > swap 120MB
> > /usr 3000MB
> > /opt 1000MB
> > /tmp 500MB
> > /var 500 MB
> > /home 800 MB
> >
> > As I said, I can select ignore all and continue with the installation and
> > everything else runs smooth, but I'd rather figure out what is going on so I
> > don't have to reinstall at a later date because of problems related to
> > glibc-devel not being installed.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----------
> > >From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
> > >To: Mike Engelhart <aengelhart@austin.rr.com>
> > >Cc: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > >Subject: Re: Install error
> > >Date: Tue, Apr 6, 1999, 11:31 AM
> > >
> >
> > > Hmmm... are you sure glibc-devel is complete?
> > > (Maybe you have the file but it's not the correct size so the isntaller
> > > doesn't like it)
> > >
> > > On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Mike Engelhart wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi -
> > >>
> > >> Yesterday I FTP'd the download and ran the installer (ramdisk.image.gz) that
> > >> was in the updates folder and everytime I ran it, when it starts scanning
> > >> for packages it gives the error "glibc-devel not in directory at line 1421"
> > >> (or something like that). The glibc-devel RPM is definitely there but the
> > >> latest ramdisk doesn't like it (maybe the install script uses a different
> > >> file name??) Anyway, I'm going to download the old ramdisk.image.gz and see
> > >> if that works. Also, on one attempt I continued the install by selecting
> > >> "Ignore All" to the error message and the rest of the install worked fine,
> > >> but the DHCP daemon was unable to get an IP address from my roadrunner
> > >> connection when I rebooted. I was previously running LinuxPPC R4 with a
> > >> 2.2.1 kernel and installed the DHCP rpm's myself and everything worked fine.
> > >> I didn't get X to work yet because I want to fix the installer problem
> > >> first, but in RedHat Linux for Intel, y0u "don't" have to use the RedHat
> > >> control-panel to set up DHCP, the installer automagically does this for the
> > >> user and you're ready to go - makes it very nice. One more thing, the
> > >> hmount command wasn't installed anywhere on my first attempt at installing.
> > >> This "is" part of YDL isn't it?
> > >
> > > hmount is part of hfsutils, correct?
> > > Someone else made a comment about DHCP being goofy. I'll rebuild
> > > thoseagainst the latest version and we'll see if they work better.
> > >
> > >
> > >> Sorry for being so verbose :-)
> > >>
> > >> Mike
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> > > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> > > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> Dan
>
> Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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