[Cialug] Venting

[Nathan C. Smith]

I'll join the fray.

I'm having trouble with FC4 too on two different systems.  One is a shuttle
SFF box with SATA drive and the other is a Supermicro server with two SCSI
drives.  I boot from CD and run the install from the network, I have also
been trying to use reiserfs.  I've been seeing similar errors.   To date I
think my troubles have been with partitioning and filesystem type.  I got
the SATA machine to install and when I disabled the CDROM the SATA/IDE /dev
changed.  
Grrr.
Between udev in FC3 and all the install issues I've had with FC4 I'm about
ready to try something else.  Hey Dave C., what kernel version is available
for mandriva?  Greater than 2.6.10?  I'm ready for the Free Suse distro too,
bring it on.

BTW, the Shuttle machine was the FC2 machine I had asked about upgrading.
Needless to say it went poorly and is going to be fresh when I'm done.  

I need to learn how to update the kernel without without screwing up my
distro.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: timwilson011 at mchsi.com [mailto:timwilson011 at mchsi.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:00 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Venting



I did finally get it to install, finishing up about 9:30 last night.  Of
course, after copying files over from the old hard drives, that left me no
time to configure FC4 to be operational for me.  So I ended up putting the
old hard drives back in.  At least I have it installed and the files copied
over.  I'll have to copy over any files that change between last night and
whenever I can get back to it, but I'm sure that won't be that bad.  Setting
up the firewall, mail, web, etc. will be a bigger PITA.

I copied the files using a command similar to the following: tar cf -
directory | tar xvf - -C newdirectory

Anyone have a better idea, or is that pretty much the best way to go?

--
Tim W.


> Mandriva will give you a warning if it can't install a package, but 
> will
> continue on and finish the install / upgrade. Depending on what packages 
> they are... you may end up with a system that's not so usable when 
> you're done, so it's kind of a blessing / curse situation.
> 
> I've seen several systems where you can install with the media just 
> fine
> on one PC, but it has these kinds of errors on another, so trying a 
> different CDROM drive might be a good thing to try.
> 
> -dc
> 
> timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> > Yeah, that's probably it, even though the media check gave it a 
> > "PASS".  But
> why
> > not just skip the package if it isn't essential to the OS?  It is 
> > maddening
> when
> > you see "8 minutes remaining" after seeing "50 minutes remaining" 
> > for 20 minutes, just to see it "fatal error" out.
> > 
> > --
> > Tim W.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>Maybe it's not reliably reading from your cd drive?
> >>
> >>On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:58 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm doing a custom install.  I took out the offending package from 
> >>>the first failed attempt.  But it still failed.  This is try #4 
> >>>(try #6 if you count
> the
> >>
> >>2
> >>
> >>>times I tried to do an upgrade after the first failure).
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Tim W.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>email message attachment
> >>>On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:58 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>i just installed fc4 w/ no problems. i'm not sure if i installed
> >>>>those packages your talking about..   i did the default server
> >>>>install and after it was up and running did some custom packages 
> >>>>of my own.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>n.d.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>I would like to know why FC4 install can't just *skip* the 
> >>>>>package it
> >>
> >>*thinks*
> >>
> >>>>>is in error.  I've done a fresh install now 3 times.  Twice, it 
> >>>>>has failed
> >>
> >>on
> >>
> >>>>>the third disk (two different packages), even though it checked 
> >>>>>out fine
> >>
> >>with
> >>
> >>>>>the media test.  Fine, I'll make another disk 3.  Now it's 
> >>>>>failing on the
> >>>>>*first* disk!  Argh!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>We now return to regularly scheduled e-mail.
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>Tim W.
> 
> 
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