[Rule-list] preparing richard's laptop

[Richard Kweskin]

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 6:54 am, Devon wrote:

> On Monday 18 March 2002 06:16 pm, Richard Kweskin wrote:
> > I was using autopartitioning instead of fdisk (gory details provided on
> > request!)
>
> I am interested in the details, of course. ;)
> Congrats on the successful install.

Firstly, as a newbie, I am grateful to all of you and want to learn more 
(hopefully by doing.)

Now:

Separate issues:

A) drvblock.img not used on laptop miniconda install

Found this out by...
1 At the prompt for a driver's disk, I reply yes and insert drvblock.img 
disk. It has a quick read and goes right to what lang should install use.
Alt-F4 reports:

"FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
 VFS: can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 02:00"

So it got nothing from drvblock disk, right?

2 Fresh reboot, this time typing linux updates (i.e. no "dd")
But it still prompts for a driver's disk (thought the lack of dd precluded 
this?). Reply no. Never have to insert drvblock.img.

B) Choosing uk keyboard (laptop happens to have it), seems to (a hunch) cause 
a longer (a bit) loading of minconda from updates disk, the install aborts, 
complaining "not enough memory". Leaving us keyboard fixes.

C) autopartitioning messed up

1 Up to partitioning, a-ok. When choosing autopartition (no matter which sub 
option) it reports:

hda1    49mb    ext3    /boot
hda2    1055mb  ext3    /
hda3    190mb   swap

2 This looks good, but it lies! Choosing ok at this point causes the lock-up 
while formatting.

3 Tried variations with autopartitioning, e.g. deleted all the partitions, 
making a virgin disk. Same lock-up.

4 Fdisk reveals the lie:
Autopartitioning, choosing "back" instead of "ok", and starting fdisk reports 
same hda1 and hda3 but hda2 is type linux native and has no mount point. 

5 The "fix":
Edit hda2 with fdisk with / and ext3, proceed and no lock-up! (Obviously 
going straight for fdisk is best!)

6 Disk druid doesn't mess-up but once you say ok, there is no going back.

Richard
rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr

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