Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:24:38 -0600 (MDT)
Trust me, thats not updated.
ftp.yellowdoglinux.com is a round robin address to our "official mirrors".
Basically we don't have enough bandwidth to server a a linux distribution
so the only people that grab from our servers directly are the mirrors.
In the future we'll consider having at least an updates system in house,
but for now we just don't have the bandwidth. (Downloads would gobble up
our T1 -- which we share with an ISP)
You are right, that ramdisk is newer then the one on the cd, but that one
still has powerbook problems. All of those problems were fixed with
last nights installer build. I verified it on a PBG3 and so I expect
you'll have no problems. I'll email the list later tonight when our
mirrors have pulled the changes.
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, perry wrote:
> actually, i grabbed it directly from the yellowdog ftp site this morning.
> unfortunately, the creation date was changed to the time i downloaded it,
> so i can't be sure this is the one, but here's the path to the file i took:
>
>
> /pub/yellowdog/updates/champion-1.0/install/updcd_ramdisk.image.gz
>
> as i said, i was able to go through almost the full install, where last
> night i wasn't able to get past the second screen -- so i assume i
> downloaded a newer ramdisk image than the one on the CD.
>
> can i login in single user mode to get around this? how do i go about doing
> that? [i'm coming from mklinux, where you just hit "s" in the bootX
> equivalent at startup.
>
> thanks,
> -perry
>
>
>
>
>
> At 7:03 PM -0600 4/6/99, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> >Perry,
> >
> >Our mirrors have not sync'd up and and grabbed the new ramdisk.
> >Please try downloading that file later this evening (verify that it's
> >newer then April 4th)
> >
> >On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, perry wrote:
> >
> >> I downloaded the updcd_ramdisk.image.gz file, dropped it in place and
> >> renamed it, and i've been able to get through about 90% of the install
> >> procedure. but now the installer is crashing when i hit ok on the
> >> authconfig 1.2 screen, with a variety of settings. i haven't tried too many
> >> combos, because it takes a full reinstall each time just to get to that
> >> point. The installer is giving me the same error i was getting yesterday
> >> with the other crash i experienced:
> >>
> >> "Install Exited Abnormally -- received Signal 11"
> >>
> >> Linux appears to be there, and since i know the root partition is at hda8,
> >> i can just set that in bootX and get as far as a login prompt. but it won't
> >> accept the password i filled in during install. i assume that the password
> >> was never written to the disk due to the installer crash.
> >>
> >> so, is there a way to get around this login situation? i'm pretty confident
> >> i can get everything set up the way i want it once i'm in, but right now i
> >> have no idea how to get that far...
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> -perry
> >>
> >> PB G3/300/192 w/Champion Server 1.0
> >>
> >
> >
> >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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