[RULE] Problem with Slinky 0.3.96

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Monday 08 November 2004 03:35 pm, Richard Reiner wrote:

> I can then do an HTTP-based install, and everything seems to go well.
> I can see packages being installed, and everything looks good.
>
> However, near the end of the process (when I am asked for a
> non-privileged username) things begin to visibly fail -- passwd can't
> be found, then lilo can't be found, and finally the result is a
> non-bootable system.

If this is what I think it is... this happens all the time.

When it installed the packages, it should have looked something like:

Installing bash-2.4.5.rpm
Preparing:  ####################################### 100%
Installing: ####################################### 100%
Installing binutils-6.6.6.rpm
Preparing:  ####################################### 100%
Installing: ########################                 60%

The process should have taken a couple hours or more.

If you didn't get that, the most likely causes are:

1. bad URL (when you enter /path/to/URLs/ I think it warns you to be sure to 
add the trailing '/'.)
2. no network or failed network

Note that slinky doesn't warn you if things failed during this stage.

Hope this helps!

-Gabriel


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