Install on TiBook
Mark T. Valites
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Apr 11 14:04:01 2002
I have the following:
blah
blah
....
OSX
OS9
bootloader
/home (shared)
/ (yd-2.2)
/ (debian woody)
This is a first generation TiBook though...
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 03:56 PM, nigel kersten wrote:
> man I must just have been really lucky.... or maybe you do have to have
> the root partition just after the bootloader one as someone just
> mentioned?
>
>
> I did a clean install of 2.2 on my brand new TiBook, before the install
> it was partitioned like:
>
> ----
> OS 9 partition
> ----
> OS X partition
> ---
> unused HFS+ partition
> ---
> my Storage partition
> ---
>
>
> When it came to the install I just removed the unused partition,
> repartitioned it like:
>
> ---
> 10 Mb bootloader
> ---
> /
> ---
> swap
> ---
>
> I just chose the developer set, btw.
>
> The whole process went like an absolute dream, I was hugely impressed.
>
> So maybe it's the partition order if your checksums match...?
>
>
> nigel
>
>
> On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 04:45 AM, Mark T. Valites wrote:
>
>> Yes, I have been getting this too with my 2.2 iso.
>> It always bombs at a certain package - I don't remember the name off
>> hand.
>> I know my iso was good too - the md5sums match...
>> Anyone else?
>>
>> On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 02:42 PM, Dave Naylor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I decided to do a clean install of 2.2. I did have 2.1 located on
>>> the single
>>> drive of my TiBook after OS9 and OSX, which lived on their own
>>> partitions. I
>>> deleted the 2.1 partition and then created "/" "swap" and a 10 MB
>>> partiton
>>> for boot. The installer ran fine until I got to "Checking for package
>>> Dependencies". As soon as that stage finished and "Transferring
>>> packages"
>>> kicked in, it would spin the CDRom twice, then report "Package Install
>>> Failed".
>>>
>>> I reasoned that perhaps I should do a clean install of everything so I
>>> followed the YDL instructions, and installed OSX and OS9 on
>>> partitions after
>>> one I left as unallocated for 2.2. I then when through the same
>>> procedure
>>> creating the 3 required Linux partions only to have the install fall
>>> over at
>>> exactly the same point.
>>>
>>> 2 CDRom spins and then the failure message.
>>>
>>> Anyone any ideas?
>>>
>>> --
>>> 0 Dave Naylor
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