From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust95.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.95]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C718482B for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 05:57:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 00F76B00D; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:57:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:57:01 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: Rafael Herrera Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 0.9.1 installation failed with and ext2-fs error Message-ID: <20010706125701.W23509@linuxcare.com> References: <3B4495BC.C3E7A04D@neuronet.pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3B4495BC.C3E7A04D@neuronet.pitt.edu>; from raffo@neuronet.pitt.edu on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:28:44PM -0400 List-ID: On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:28:44PM -0400, Rafael Herrera wrote: > While installing the latest 0.9.1 on a 715/75 machine over a serial > line, the installation halted with this error message: > > Extracting > /var/cache/apt/archives/tar_1.13.19-1_hppa.deb... EXT2-fs > error (device sd(8,3)): ext2_write_inode: unable t9 > > it looks truncated. I can't provide more error messages. Are there other > virtual consoles under the installed? if so, how do you switch to them? > I'm using minicom on an X terminal. No virtual consoles on a serial install, sorry. Try again, and when you get to the point of installing base, scroll down the menu to 'execute a shell'. Then mount the CD, something like mkdir /tmp/cd mount /dev/scd0 /tmp/cd (may already be mounted under /instmnt, do 'mount' to check) Then run debootstrap manually: debootstrap sid /target file:/tmp/cd That might give more clues. Also, check you have minicom running with line wrapping enabled, and tell it to log to a file. That way you can find the error output in the log file afterwards. Richard