On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, allxssan wrote:
>
> On 24-Oct-99 Pixel wrote:
> > allxssan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Hello, some problems here.
> >>
> >> I have reinstalled cooker because of some problems ...
> >>
> >> Removed all but not /root
> >> Running "gi" from floppy :
> >>
> >> install or upgrade always ends with
> >>
> >> error opening security policy: xkbcomp not
> >> found
> >> falling back to ....
> >> Glib-Warning: getpwd failed due to: no such user 0
> >> install_.... line 701
> >> bla bla bla :-)))
> >>
> >
> > nice messages, uh!
> >
> > at least, i removed the ``Use of uninitialized value''s
> >
> >> GI 'install' always attempt to restore previous lilo.conf. Big problem if
> >> someone need to restore a corrupted installation without remove old settings
> >> and
> >> software
> >>
> >
> > Maybe we can keep the working entries?
> > Also things like append="..." are worth keeping...
And sometimes they aren't (i just had to restore from a
append="ide2=something_bad") Had i tryed to reinstall i'd have same
problem no?
> I think that this is the same problem with standard install/upgrade.
> Sometimes I have tryed to install Mandrake ( or RedHat ) on some corrupted
> installation but the process failed at lilo-boot install. If the installation
> found some lilo.conf try to append instead of sustitute this file.
You know, i've never actualy looked to see how it handles lilo =X
> I'm probably saying a stupid thing but the rescue diskette with tombsomething (
> the minilinux distribution ) does not allow me to access files on hd.
> Tryed mount with rw option and also chmod without results. Other times I have
> tryed ( tryied ? ) to run defrag for hda1 starting from "tomb" with the same
> results.
> This is because the shell ( sh ? ) or something other like my mistake?
I haven't had the problems :/ what type of errors were you recieveing if
any?
> Thank you
> Alessandro
>
>
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> Date: 24-Oct-99
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