[RULE] Attempt 3: Toshiba Satellite 115CS

[Da Worm]

>The only funny thing I see is that if I try the same command line from my
>Windows box, it 
>only works if there are no { } surrounding the username:password pair. 
>Could that be an
>issue here as well?

Bingo, that was it.  I edited setup.sh before loading it to remove the { } from the 
LOGIN variable, and now it is downloading RPMS from my FTP server.  This one
is definitely a bug.

Jeff.


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On 6/26/2004 at 8:06 PM Da Worm wrote:

>In case there were some errors in transferring over the net (I never saw
>the Download 
>or Install bars, so something was wrong) I downloaded the iso's from the
>same location.
>I extracted them onto my gentoo box into a directory available from my FTP
>server on 
>that box, so I would have a local FTP, no internet.
>
>Here, I get the same behavior, I see the package names whiz by, but no
>Download or 
>Install bars.  Here's the last few lines (typed in, so there may be a typo
>or two):
>
>Retrieving
>ftp://{username:password}@192.168.254.100/temp/redhat/9/RedHat/RPMS/xsri-2.1.0-5.i386.rpm
>Retrieving
>ftp://{username:password}@192.168.254.100/temp/redhat/9/RedHat/RPMS/abiword-1.0.4-2.i386.rpm
>Sorry, only CDROM installs are supported for
>the TinyX packages
>
>The username:password pair are correct, and the IP address is correct.  I
>don't see any
>missing /'s anywhere.
>
>The only funny thing I see is that if I try the same command line from my
>Windows box, it 
>only works if there are no { } surrounding the username:password pair. 
>Could that be an
>issue here as well?
>
>Also, how to get TinyX without a CDROM drive on the machine?  Can I ftp it
>onto the drive 
>(assuming I get past this) and install from there?
>
>Jeff.
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>On 6/26/2004 at 6:10 PM Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>
>>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.
>>> 
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>>> 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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