On Friday 24 January 2003 10:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: <interspersed> > This install was done on preformatted /dev/hda7 in ext2 , no formatting > in the install > proceedure at all. > > F1 expert install route > > 1)Failed to detect and install Scroll wheel mouse .
That's been updated and fixed in cooker I believe John. Could you just use "generic mouse" settings long enough to get the install completed? Then configure the mouse? We are dealing with a beta. > > 2)Fails to detect /swap partition, at least it does not tell me it has. Are you reading the kernel messages or are you actually doing a text install? Swapon happens at boot as far as I know. > > 3) No saved package facility. Beta problem. Fixed in cooker I think. It's (again) possible to do it later after updating. > > 4) When asked to present CD1 for printer , it fails > to detect the CD1 when presented KERNEL problem. The kernel shipped with the beta (1 and 2) is calling all ide removable drives as scsi which makes it almost impossible for a gnubie like me to figure out. Someone suggested passing the kernel "hdx=ide-cd" for cdroms and dvdroms. Mine wouldn't even find my floppy drive. The latest kernel (available later today according to Juan Quintela) should fix this and more. In the meantime you can use a different kernel for the install using "blank.img." The INSTALL.txt file talks about that. You actually are able to install using your own kernel. The one in cooker now (kernel-2.4.21.pre3.2mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm) may actually alleviate some of your troubles. I can actually manually mount my cdrom now where I couldn't with the previous kernel. I'll let you know if it works should I decide to try it that way. Or I may just try a hard drive install of the full cooker I have on a drive here. > > 5) The install hangs "please wait making printer port available for CUPS" No printer on this box, sorry. I do remember reading a few threads about this on cooker ml though. Expert too IIRC. May be worthwhile to have a look at the archives. Yesterday and the day before I think; may be enough to get you on track I hope. > > 6) then error message "An error occured foomatic-configure failed" > > 7) fails to detect 1280x1024@60hz screen resolution and when manually > chosen it fails to hold. > > 8) It detected Generic geforce3+ XFree4.2.1 ok, but returned > "error message, server SUGA is not available (should be in > /mnt/usr/X11R/XFree86)" > result is a failed screen driver installation , no test etc. Have you tried accepting the resolution offered and adjusting later? I changed colour depth at summary screen from 24 bpp to 16 bpp (I have an old Creative Graphics Blaster 16 MB) due to a limited card and it held. Test always hung for me too. > > 9) The whole process skips creating a boot disc altogether Probably cause it can't find the floppy. It may be a part of that scsi stuff that's "slapping" the cdrom. Or a broken mkinitrd, or broken mkbootdisk. Or any combination thereof. > > 10 ) None of the LH side panel scripts are sensitive to cursor clicks. Design choice. That option has been turned off. Or so it was written on the cooker list. > > 11) I was forced to install lilo, which was not by choice as I wanted to > do a floppy boot or failing that M9.0 boot script/lilo.conf job, and as > a result it's lilo was installed in the MBR. More beta gremlins. I think you'll have to accept that and get the install up then boot back to 9.0 and add the links to the boot directory. > > The reboot went ok as far as a consol login , but of course no xwindows > meant I could not get a graphical desktop. I tried to think > of a way I might be able to remidy this but coundn't think of any. I > suppose if you are at a local host terminal it must be possible to install > a driver in cojunction with the installation cd's but if so someone > would have to explain. Maybe because I only tried to change a few things and didn't try to select any individual packages or alter anything except at the summary screen but I managed to convince the bootloader to change to console login by preference. Then just log in and "startx" worked for me. As I mentioned, it's a beta. For example at the services at boot screen there are no buttons and if I tried to turn any on or off (the first three times I tried to install) the machine hung forever. I just ignored this and hit enter at that screen under the assumption that I could turn services off in drakconf after the fact. > > I really want some way of building on this so that lilo does not get > installed and a Xwindows screen driver setup is achieved. > > There was nothing left for me to do but reinstall M9.0's lilo to the MBR. > > John One final thing John. You'll possibly (when you do get a desktop after login) find that you are unable to access any network. The network will be up but it won't have access to your ISP's name servers. Before you do any more with the beta might I suggest that you grab a copy of initscripts-7.02.2mdk.i586.rpm or a newer one and install that and the kernel mentioned above before you try anything else. Good luck John. I hope some of this was of at least small help. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing. -- Eugene Ionesco
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