A few weeks ago, I had to install on Sandy Bridge hardware that is not supported in the kernel in the 2.5.0 media.
While I've done some installer work recently, it will be at least weeks before there's a new installer you can use. In the meantime, here's an alternative, manual workaround process for getting Foresight installed on hardware not supported by 2.5.0 media. This is from memory, so reply with supplementary information or fixes. Download two things: * Latest sysrescuecd (has recent kernels) * Recent tarball of Foresight Put the tarball somewhere you can get at it from the system you are installing; USB key, NFS server, HTTP server. Boot sysrescuecd, and be sure to choose a 64-bit kernel option if you are installing 64-bit Foresight. It won't work otherwise! Partition and make filesystems in sysrescuecd. If you choose ext4 instead of ext3, remember that you did so. (It will work, even for /boot -- new foresight has new enough extlinux.) Set up swap.. Make sure that the partition containing /boot is flagged as the bootable partition. Mount the filesystems somewhere. Mount the filesystem containing the tarball if it's on a filesystem. Or make sure you have network available for getting at your tarball. Unpack your tarball in the right directory. tar xzSpf rm /path/to/var/swap -- you aren't using it anyway. Edit /path/to/etc/fstab -- make sure everything is right, including ext4 if you made ext4 filesystems, and setting up swap. chroot /path/to /bin/bash mount /proc mount /sys MAKEDEV null full zero sda <-- add devices as necessary mkinitrd -f INITRD VERSION <-- figure this out useradd -all-the-args-you-want YOURUSER usermod -a -G wheel YOURUSER passwd YOURUSER passwd (you're going to want a root password when this thing doesn't boot!) cat /boot/extlinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda extlinux -i /boot/exlinux umount /sys umount /proc exit Now unmount all your newly-installed filesystems, and reboot. With luck you'll have a working Foresight system. If you don't, ask for help. Probably I forgot an important step. Sorry. _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
