Hello,
Tried to load a clean copy of cooker today from the sunsite
mirror, and there's a few problems.
My computer is a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop, which has a primary
Windows partition of about 7GB, then a 1.5GB partition for root, and
another 0.5GB partition for the home directory.
First off, I boot from the floppy image for PCMCIA, and can
get into the mirror just fine. Stage 2 loads, and the graphic install
comes up. I tell it to do an expert install. The installer makes it
all the way through to the disk partitioning. The Windows partition
is recognised, and the mount point is set to /mnt/windows. I set the
mount points for the root and /home partitions. When it goes to update
an error message comes up saying that the partition can't be mounted.
(not sure.. wrote it down, can't find it..) Looking at console 3 (?)
says:
trying with /tmp/vfat.o
unresolved symbol fat_scan
unresolved symbol fat_add_cluster
unresolved symbol fat_dir_empty
.. etc - there's a bunch of them.
Restarting, and simply removing the mount point for the
windows directory gets past this.
The installer says "looking for packages", and appears to
load something, then the network traffic decreases to one packet
every couple seconds, and nothing else happens. Waited almost
an hour - never gets to package selection.
Console 1 flashes the following message over and over
every second:
Sun Dec 31 15:31:52 2000 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported
by C library at /usr/bin/pearl-install/my_gtk.pm line 178
sometime later - another step in the install? says:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en"
LC_ALL = "en_US"
LANG = "en"
are supported in your system
perl: warning: Falling back to the Standard locale ("C")
Processing archive "/mnt/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.ftp1.cz"
Ah well.
Thanks in advance - I'll try again in a couple days. Can I presume
that the errors are in Stage 2?
Vincent Meyer
