[Rule-list] Slinky 0.2.7

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:47 am, Joe Sprankle wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> During install I specified hda2 as my drive to install on.My disk
> layout is simple, one 850mb hd with 150mb swap and the rest is one big
> /. I have pasted my lilo.conf as well as the two install logs below. I
> apologize for outlook, I am forced to use it at work and the guy who
> does my job at night is fascinated with screwing with the computer at
> night (bored I suppose).

Looking at the log, I see a bug or two, but nothing major.
(I don't see a second log file, but this should be enough to get me 
started.)

> lilo.conf:

Looks ok.

> install log with "yes" selected at lilo promt:

> file system options = -q -m 3
> Available devices = hda
> Unable to locate
^^^^^^^^
That doesn't look good. Now I just need to figure out what couldn't be 
located.

> PART_DEV= /dev/hda
> INSTALL_DEV= /dev/hda
> partition_tool=cfdisk
> SWAP_DEV=/dev/hda1
> Available partitions = hda2
> ROOT_PART_SELECTED=hda2
> ROOT_DEV=/dev/hda2
> Network packages selected for install.
> web tools packages selected for install.
> error: failed to stat /newroot: No such file or directory
> error: failed to stat /newroot: No such file or directory
> error: failed to stat /newroot: No such file or directory
^^^^^^^^
This appears to be a script error. I've managed to reproduce this error, 
and have fixed scripts. I'll post new images later tonight. The error was 
caused by using an incorrect /etc/mtab file. It should now be parsed and 
edited properly to contain valid entries to satisfy rpm.

> Finished installing RPMS: Sat Jul 27 03:53:29 EDT 2002
> Install completed: Sat Jul 27 03:58:55 EDT 2002

I've just finished an install similar to yours, I'll include the install 
log, with a few comments. The install went fine, lilo booted normally, 
and kudzu detected and configured the network card during the boot 
process.

$ cat install_log
Mon Jul 29 09:55:39 ??? 2002 Slinky installer starting.

### The ??? above is due to having no time zone data available yet.

Command line used:
initrd=rootfs.gz ramdisk_size=1536 root=/dev/ramdisk rw BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz 
nodma
Processor info:
processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 5 model : 4 model name 
: WinChip C6
Memory info:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 39325696 3424256 35901440 
0 53248 2134016 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 38404 kB MemFree: 35060 kB
User selected version 7.3.
User selected cdrom install type.
CD probe=hdc
CDROM_DEV=/dev/hdc
Filesystem type selected = ext2
file system options = -q -m 3
Available devices = hda
PART_DEV= /dev/hda
INSTALL_DEV= /dev/hda
partition_tool=fdisk
SWAP_DEV=/dev/hda2
Available partitions = hda1
ROOT_PART_SELECTED=hda1
ROOT_DEV=/dev/hda1
Network packages selected for install.
web tools packages selected for install.
Openssh  packages selected for install.
warning: /etc/host.conf created as /etc/host.conf.rpmnew

## I've fixed the above warning in the newest scripts.

warning: group lock does not exist - using root
warning: group mail does not exist - using root

## This, I can't figure out. The groups in question do exist prior to 
installing the package causing the warnings.

telinit: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

## Any ideas? Happens all the time, doesn't seem to harm anything.

Finished installing RPMS: Mon Jul 29 06:21:36 EDT 2002
Install completed: Mon Jul 29 06:22:17 EDT 2002

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