YDL 2.2 install fails at transfering packages

[Pete Peters]

Lately, there have been a number of posts w/ this error message, i.e.
"errors running transaction set."

<begin rant>
Someone at YellowDog (after all, it *IS* your installer) needs to read both
Microsoft's and Apple's guidelines about providing useful error messages.
That error message is useless geek-speak. How about being proactive and not
proceding with the install, and informing the user there's insufficient
drive space?
<end rant>

The "usual" problem appears to be trying to install on a 1GB or less drive
or partition. You didn't say what size your hard drives are nor the drive
size/partition scheme that was successful on your Performa 5200. Btw, the
nubus-pmac people <http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net> would probably  be
very interested to know that you successfully installed YDL 2.2 on a
Performa.

Cheers.


Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of Alexander Holst
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:52 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: YDL 2.2 install fails at transfering packages


Hi everybody,

I am trying to install YDL 2.2 on a PM7500/100, using the text based
installer. Whenever I get to the "Transfering Packages" section, the
progress bar starts and then sits for a while, until, after a long time,
I get an error message saying:

Error
-----
Errors running transaction set!

Please correct this manually.

The problem is persistant, no matter what packages I choose, nor whether
I have a single or multi partition setup. How can i avoid the error, and
what causes it? [with this method I successfully installed YDL 2.2 on a
Performa 5200, so the CD should be ok]

tech details:
PM7500/100 with 80MB RAM
two disks, sda and sdb [I am trying to install on sdb8 as / and sda2 as
/home]
default vmlinux kernel and ramdisk-text.image.gz from CD booted via
miBoot [no MacOS on the machine]

Any help appreciated, thanks.

p.s.: pls cc to the list, when replying to me directly, we are having
serious email delivery problems at the moment =8[

Alexander Holst
Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
<holst@fh-pforzheim.de>