[RULE] Attempt 3: Toshiba Satellite 115CS

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

It looks like you are right about the RPMS not making it.  When it
downloads the RPMS it should take a while (even on a LAN).  With each
RPM it loads, you should see a line announcing the install of the RPM,
and then some status bars.  Sort of like this:

getting rpm: (blah blah) foo.rpm
Download: ################################################# 100%
Install:  ###############################                    60%

(I can't remember the exact words.)

Unfortunately, Slinky is unable to detect when the RPMS did not actually
load... so it just trudges along acting like everything is OK -- but you
get error messages exactly like you described.  :-)

Possible problems:
1. Network could PING ok, but perhaps you didn't actually have
permission to do an ftp logon to the server.  (Unlikely, I was able to
do an anonymous login to the server, using the path you gave me.)
2. Perhaps (most likely) there is an error in your path.  Remember when
the instructions asked for the "/PATH/TO/RPMS/"... did you put a
trialing '/'?  You have to or it doesn't work.
3. Inspect the announcements for the RPMS that it's trying to pull.  Can
you see anything obviously wrong with the path?

HTH,
Gabriel

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 16:30, Da Worm wrote:
> Hmmm, another problem, maybe.
> 
> Shall I install lilo on /dev/hda ? [yes / NO]: yes
> lilo: No such file or directory
> 
> Shall I create a boot floppy? [yes / NO]: yes
> /root/scripts/base_install.sh: /sbin/mkbootdisk: No such file or directory
> 
> Hmmm.  Must be the RPMS didn't make it from the ftp server (it seemed too fast).
> 
> I used this info for the server:
> 
> IP Address: 128.227.205.212  (ftp.cise.ufl.edu)
> Full path:  /pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
> 
> Maybe that's the problem?
> 
> Jeff.
> 
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> 
> On 6/26/2004 at 5:21 PM Da Worm wrote:
> 
> >It turns out I'm in town after all.  So I figured I'd try again with a
> >new 
> >16bit PCMCIA card I picked up for $17 on eBay.
> >
> >The good news:
> >  I can run pcmcia.sh start and bring up the network, ping other machines 
> >on and off my lan, the whole ball of wax.  Hooray!
> >
> >The bad news:
> >  I couldn't format my hard disk.
> >
> >When I get the the disk prep area of the setup.sh script, I answer as
> >follows:
> >
> >Filesystem: ext3
> >Device: hda
> >Partition: Tried using existing partitions, then used fdisk to delete and
> >recreate 
> >	a 64M swap and a 1G / 
> >Select / : hda3
> >Format? : yes
> >
> >I see messages about mounting the swap followed by "Creating root file
> >system".  
> >Then I get a crash.  If I rerun setup.sh, then when I get to that point,
> >it just sits 
> >there after the Creating root file system" message.  It isn't exactly
> >locked up, 
> >because if I hit ENTER the cursor drops one line, or if I type, the
> >characters 
> >appear on screen.  But there is no disk activity.
> >
> >* NEWS FLASH *
> >
> >As I was typing this, I was reproducing the steps so I could show the
> >crash dump.
> >I had already tried the mem=16M kernel parameter to no effect, but the
> >nature
> >of the crash led me to believe it was a memory problem, so I tried mem=12M
> >and
> >lo and behold, the disk formats.
> >
> >Installing packages over FTP right now!
> >
> >Thanks all!
> >Jeff.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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