Install Woes on my G4 Sawtooth

[Jean-Philippe Jung (Home)]

Ken,

I am trying to get feed back to validate / eliminate an idea I had regarding
this problem. Can you restart your installation in Expert mode the way you
did describe below, but after all disk dribe related operation (creation,
format, mount point) and before the installation of packages, roll back to
the steps of Mount Point Selection and take a look at the mount points.
Can you let me know if they are correct or not?

In my case, the problem was that the installer silently reassigned the root
partition to the 10MB bootloader partition and did not mount the "what I
wanted to use as root" big partition. Setup later fails with the symptoms
you describe because of disk space failure, but never exhibit such a clear
message...

PPPPlease, let me know,

JP


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Simpson" <ksimpson@optushome.com.au>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 6:56 PM
Subject: Install Woes on my G4 Sawtooth


> Thanks Dan for your advice re the installation problems, but I am
> still having difficulty.
>
> G4/500 Sawtooth AGP Rage 128 640MB RAM 40GB and 30GB HDD
>
> Downloaded rome-2.2-20020407-install.iso md5sum was fine
>
> burnt it onto a CD-RW with no problems using Toast
>
> Partitioning
> 10MB bootloader (/boot)
> 256MB swap (swap)
> 11.4GB root (/)
>
> install OK until package selection time when I get this error
>
> Message box: "Error- errors running transaction set! Please correct this
> manually." (hit "Okay" button)
>
> Message box: "Package install failed." (hit "Okay" button)
>
> Message box: "Network setup error: Setup was unable to locate a network
> device." (hit "Okay" button)
>
> Message box: "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:
>
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> "/usr/lib/yi/timezone.py", line 56, in doList
> dir_list= os.listdir (path)
>
> file "/usr/lib/yi/timezone.py", line 58, in GetTimeZoneInfo
> list= self.dolist (path, list)
>
> file "/usr/lib/yi/timezone.py", line 35, in configure
> self.GetTimeZoneInfo (  )
>
> file "/usr/lib/yi/template.py", line 57, in _ _CALL _ _
> return self.configure (args)
>
> In case it was a bad burn, I have now burnt it onto a CD-R, but with
> exactly the same results.
>
> Can anyone offer any wisdom?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Regards
> Ken
> mailto:ksimpson@optushome.com.au
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