install strangeness

[Cynthia Croy]

Hello everyone-

I submitted this message to the linuxppc user list last week. I'm
wondering if anyone here has any ideas. I've noticed some more unusual
behaviors since then. Among them: I can't move windows around the
desktop when logged in as a user - root works OK. I can minimize and
maximize windows, but I can't resize them i.e. by grabbing one of the
window borders and dragging it. GNOME only gives me two choices for
window managers with sawfish as the default. I would prefer
enlightenment, but it wasn't there. I can't mount the CD-ROM drive - it
says "special device /dev/xxx doesn't exist" where xxx is CDROM or sr0.
It sees the CD drive because it shows up in dmesg - that's where I got
sr0 from. The CD-ROM drive "just worked" with the LinuxPPC 1999
installation. Application start-up seems awfully slow, and I've seen
messages after leaving X windows to logout about applications quitting
due to lack of memory. I'm assuming this is due to the swap partition
problem. When I wrote the message below, I forgot to mention that I had
the swap partition problem with the install on the original hard drive,
but I assumed at the time that it was because both hdh and hda had a
swap partition. Evidently the installer managed to make the swap
partition on hdh before it broke the connection. However, for the second
install, I deleted the swap partition on hda, so there should have only
been one.

So, I would add to the original questions:

1) Where do I find enlightenment
2) Do I have some permissions set wrong such that I can't move my
windows as a user
3) Do I have some setting checked wrong so that I can' resize my windows

4) How do I get my CDROM drive to mount
5) There were several kernel choices in the BootX control panel - which
one would be the best one for me to select?

On the positive side, I can connect to the internet - which I could
never figure out with the 1999 install. KWord works - I didn't have a
word processor with the 1999 install. It looks nicer than the 1999
install and is, in general, a lot more user friendly.

-------------- original message----------------------

I received my YDL 2.2 CD's yesterday and tried to install last night.

My system:

    *PowerBase with Powerlogix G3 card
    *1.2 Gb original IDE drive
    *30 Gb IDE drive connected through Sonnet Ultra ATA Card
    *OS 7.5.3 installed on Mac partition of original drive - so I can
print
    *OS 9.0 on both Mac partitions (HFS and HFS+) of 30 Gb drive
    *Boot X installed on OS 7.5.3 and HFS+ partitions
    *104 Mb RAM

The installer saw the 30 Gb drive and the formatter allowed me to add
and delete partitions, but when I tried to save (and actually do the
formatting) it broke the X connection and sent me to the gray MacOS
screen. I powered down and tried again with the original drive, and this

one formatted correctly. However, it wouldn't allow me to do a
"Home/Office" install - I assumed (I didn't have the space requirements
on hand at the time) it was because there wasn't enough drive space for
it. So, I tried a "Base" install. This seemed to install correctly and I

thought I could use the command line to install the rest of the packages

on the larger drive. When I booted into this install I got "command not
found" with emacs, pico and shutdown. Is it supposed to do that?

    <break message to try something new>

I tried again (to format the 30Gb hard drive) with the text installer,
and everything was going fine until it started installing KDE
multimedia. It came up with the following message:

Terminatedpm - tmp.40994: line 2: 1413 terminated kbuild sycoca
>&/dev/null FIVE install exited abnormally r/lib/mozilla/regxpcom
>dev/null 2>/dev/null.

After messages about terminating and killing processes, it said it was
safe to reboot the system. I used a ctrl-command-power reboot which
meant I ultimately had to power down. When I started up again I tried to

boot Linux, and I got this message:

swapon:/dev/hdh9 :  invalid argument

with [FAILED] instead of [OK] in the startup procedure. A message about
"unable to find swap space signature" showed up in dmesg. I don't
understand this - /dev/hdh9 is my swap partition and pdisk reported it
correctly.

I got a text login prompt and it let me login as root without a
password. I added a root password from the command line. I haven't made
a user account yet because I don't remember how to do it - but I have
this info somewhere. I ran Xconfigurator and mouseconfig from the
command line and then was able to run X windows. Gnome came up as the
default desktop - I thought KDE was supposed to be default with YDL. The

only other thing that seemed odd (which I have found do far) was that
Abiword didn't have a font file. The KDE multimedia menu was empty, but
I'm not surprised since the installer died when installing it.

So my questions are

    1) What's wrong with the swap partition
    2) Why did the installer quit
    3) Did I miss anything besides the KDE multimedia
    4) Can I install anything I missed from the CD without going through

the whole install again

Any help would be much appreciated-

Cindy