Subject: Re: Ridiculous error messages from YD installation...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 15:31:50 MST
Hey Braford.... well my suspicion is that my disk space is too small.
Even though I install a small base system on the 1 gig drive, my
suspicion is that YD wants more. What a great excuse to buy a larger
disk drive!
To answer your questions, the DIMMS are the same, text based installer,
retail CD's.
Now where's that credit card!?
-- John
Dave Braford wrote:
> More info on your specific setup-
> Example questions:
> Are you using fpm DIMMS of the same variety ?
> Using BootX and the text-based installer ?
> Did you download the CD or purchase it ?
> If you DL'ed, make sure it's valid via checksum.
>
> YDL is VERY ready for prime-time. I use the very same
> box (among others) for print, file, mail and web services
> without so much as a peep.
>
> BTW-If you can, get a larger drive (< 2GB) and install everything.
> You don't have to run all the services, but it may save you headaches
> with dependencies later.
> On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 10:33 PM, John Nelson wrote:
>
>
> Ok, I repeated the install a couple times and it finally took. All
> the
> packages installed (but I think the installer ignored my selection of
> "Basic" and went straight for the Development version. Now I've
> rebooted
> the machine and its hanging on fsck. Get's about 73% of the way
> through
> and then just keeps hitting on the disk with no progress.
>
> I really don't think Yellow Dog is ready for prime time yet. It just
> shouldn't be this difficult.
>
> -- John
>
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, John Nelson wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:52:29 -0500 (EST)
> From: John Nelson <john@computation.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Ridiculous error messages from YD installation...
>
>
> Now I'm really getting frustrated with this thing...
>
> I installed 256 meg of RAM into my 8500 and managed to get
> past the
> formating issues I had previous. So far so good. So now I get
> to the
> "mount points" screen and use my 1 gig drive for "/". Just
> keep it
> simple. Now I click on "done" ...
>
> and I get an error message that says something like "Error:
> undefined
> type". Say what? What "type" have I not defined? I answered every
> question the installer asked me and define my boot loader,
> swap and main
> partition. These partitions formatted fine. There has been no
> opportunity for me to define a "type" anywhere in here.
>
> So I click on "continue" despite the warning that things might be
> unstable and go to install packages, and the installer starts
> installing
> the packages... and it immediately pops up an error panel that
> says:
>
> Error occured
> ---------------
>
> ... and that's all. No error message. Just the fact that an error
> occured. Underneath the panel I see that it was trying to
> install a
> package called "database". At this point I'm in an infinite
> loop and have
> to shut down with the power button.
>
> Sheeze this sucks... I can't believe that the Redhat installer
> (which
> someone claimed this was based on) was this bad!
>
> So anyone have any ideas on how to fix this and get Yellow Dog
> to install?
>
> -- John
>
>
>
> --
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