On Wednesday 20 June 2001 01:13, Pixel wrote:
> Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > 1. Copied local mirror of 8.0 (from which I successfully installed to my
> > main machine) to a FAT32 partition on the 2nd box, using Samba, and
> > attempted install from hd.img floppy.
> > Result...
> > "Died at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 430.
>
> this happens if you go in the individual package selection tree, doesn't
> it? isn't there more error messages before this on console 3? it should try
> to extract the header in /mnt/tmp/headers...
>
> and what happens if you choose no individual package selection?
Thanks for your quick response Pixel. I had suspected it may have something
to do with copying the mirror to a DOS partition (symlinks and all), so I
repartitioned and copied the mirror to a new local ext2 partition. Then I
tried again, without individual package selection, as you advised.
Result...
Console 1: Entering step `Install system'
memory alloc (3959425700 bytes) returned NULL.
install exited abnormally :-(
Why would it need 3.9GB?
Planned install partitions:
/ 7742MB
swap 258MB
/home 500MB
/root 100MB
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
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Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586
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