From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3673C7D1.D0934DC7@mail.esiea.fr> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:57:38 +0100 From: "G. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Laur=E8s?=" Reply-To: laures@hp1.esiea.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Liste LinuXppc/dev Subject: pre-R5 installation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi everybody, I mail you all cause I have probs about a pre R5 installation... The following assumes that I've managed to boot properly the installer, including second-stage with the 2nd floppy, and t I tried all of this with 2.1.125 from R4 installation @ dev.linuxppc.org and last 2.1.130 from BenH. First I noticed that DHCP configuration for ftp install doesn't work (it's over a motorola cybersurf cable modem), I got a "SIGCAUGHT" or whatever when choosing this option, I don't exactly remember. Second, ftp installation doesn't work with fixed IP information either : it doesn't get ns information, or can't log into server with the correct IP address, it seems that no packets can get out of it. Ping on it from another machine (my PBG3 with masquerading software) do work though (???????). So I tried an HD install... as said Martin Costabel, I had to put all the files on an ext2 partition (fine, I had a 2GB hd lying with R4 on it). Third, server nor workstation types of install work, they get you into a loop with SCSI adapters and Macintosh-like partitionned hd stuff and then on server/workstation/custom rpm choices. But here begin strong problems : it complains about around 35 rpm missing (I guess they are not ready yet, I don't care for now, I would add some if only I could compile them...), then installs rpms (I choosed very basic install, keeping all default but PPP-dialup), and then I got a lot of warning like "execution of XXX script failed". Well, it fails for initscripts, egcs, binutils, make, egcs, timeconfig, pam/pamconfig : all that type of non-useful things if you see what I mean... Then I got panics during time configuration, just after network conf, and I have to make a hard reset here. Of course it doesn't boot, warning for being unable to open an initial console and to find init stuff -> kernel panic, you have 180 seconds to type what's on screen... Of course I redownloaded twice of all these critical rpms, I got the same warnings. I'll try a third time tommorrow just to be sure... I hope you'll see in there some obvious mistake I'm to tired to see by myself... Thanks to anybody who could help, I'm really stuck here. Gom [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]