[Rule-list] Failed Miniconda Install
Michael Fratoni
mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net
Sun Oct 6 02:02:37 EEST 2002
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On Saturday 05 October 2002 06:40 pm, Arthur Yarwood wrote:
> Yeah that's what the main sig 11 faq page says. Although I'm keeping
> confident about the ram, as the box has been running redhat7.0 for
> years without problems. Until I tried to squeeze some speed out of it
> by playing with hdparam and managed to screw the drive up... Can't boot
> it anymore more, fails to find init... doh! oh well, thats another
> story, it was due for a update anyway.
Ouch! ;)
> I shall give slinky a go. If it can get the basics there, that'd be
> cool. I can cope from there. Last time I seemed to spend ages removing
> bloat from the redhat install anyway. You want enough libs to run the
> pretty gui X config apps remotely, but not actually run an XServer on
> the machine.
Slinky has options to install minimal X support, they may be useful.
> There are a couple of config files I'd like to backup and reuse. So I
> was kind of hoping that I could jump into another console part way
> through an installer and mount a remote drive to copy stuff over. As I
> mentioned earlier I've screwed up the current install, which makes
> backing up a bit difficult. Is this feasible with slinky?
Shouldn't be a problem, you have additional ttys available as well as a
decent set of mount and file tools.
> > I've also been trying to rebuild the miniconda installer for 7.2 and
> > 7.3 but I had run out of both time and disk space. ;) The disk space
> > problem has been solved, and my devel machine is back in working
> > order again, so perhaps I'll make some progress on this soon.
>
> Well I hope you get to the bottom of this soon. If there's any feedback
> you need or installers you'd like me to try, get in touch.
Will do, victims, err, testers always welcome! ;)
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