On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 14:23, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> I just tested on a machine without a regular floppy drive, it
> doesn't segfault neither :-(.

Must be something else causing it...I really don't get what :\
 
> > With my laptop, I can't get Mandrake to install with Sony's PCMCIA CD
> > drive; it will boot off it just fine but won't see it after that, so
> > when it gets to package selection it can't read the CD and says 'no
> > hdlists found!' (Yes, i've tried the boot parameters listed in various
> 
> Hmmm?? If graphical install starts, it means that we are able to
> see and mount the cdrom, there is no reason it would not see the
> hdlists...

Really? Hmm.
 
> Could you run the same try, and at the time you enjoy the error,
> can you attach the report.bug? to get it:
> 
> switch to console 2, put a dos floppy in floppy drive,
> and type "bug"
> 
> -> it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests us
> 
> I'm not sure it will work with a USB floppy. If it doesn't work,
> maybe you can try to mount your USB floppy by hand and copy the
> file /tmp/ddebug.log on the floppy and send it to us.

It very likely won't work; my USB floppy gets created as /dev/sda and
no-one seems to look for this (to make SuSE install I had to switch to a
virtual console and symlink /dev/sda to /dev/fd0)...guess this is
something else that could be looked at, if Mandrake expects to find fd0
:). Um, I could do this, but first can you confirm I can get to this
stage in an install without breaking anything on a working system? Don't
want to mess up my working SuSE install. This problem occurred with MDK
8.2, by the way - I haven't tried with Cooker, i'd rather keep
release-version distros on the laptop. I tell you what - when 9.0 beta 2
comes out i'll burn those CDs and try it...is that OK?
-- 
adamw


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