On Tuesday February 11 2003 11:35 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Well it's my 3rd attempt and I have a working desktop with a dialup
> internet connection.
>
> The install is painfully slow, I wait an eon between installation
> windows, and I wonder whether anyone else has this problem.I
> certainly did not experience this with beta1 and 2.
> The install time is something like 2 1/2 hours against a normal 40
> minuites or so.
I believe just a very few people have already reported this
>
> Anyway, the problems are,
>
> installer misses off "foomatic rpm notfound", therefore no printer
> config, have installed foomatic on desktop via urpmi foomatic, so
> the rpm is there to
> install. I have yet to configure a printer.
>
> The installer doesn't much like a usb camera being plugged in, and
> the boot script doesn't like it either, I get
> "ldm_valiate_partition_table () disk read failed.
> which I do not find odd since my camera is unlikely to be part of
> my partition table,
> or is it ?
>
> The installer insists on installing supermount none of which work,
> and I have
> to re-write the fstab scripts to give me scsi-em / automount. then
> all works,
> but all media devices, roms and floppies report eror message "could
> not launch
> kfmclient" , what is this about ?
>
> I also get a shutdown script warning " nmb services failed" what is
> this about ?
>
> To get an internet connection I have to urpmi kdenetwork-kppp in a
> terminal on desktop, why the installer cannot do this I do not
> know, is it a fault ?
>
> I don't think any of these are catastrophic, and probably not worth
> reporting,
> anyone anything to suggest ?
Yes. You should mention the hardware involved with these various
issues. You can probly find fixes or work-arounds by searching the
cooker ML archives, or bugzilla. A lot, if not most, will say it's
fixed in newer packages .... SO ....
Suggestion: You can get to current cooker where a lot of your
problems have already been reported, and probly fixed ... even with a
56k dialup. I did for years. First set up urpmi sources for /RPMS/
and /RPMS2/ from a cooker mirror. Then go into /etc/urpmi/ and edit
skip.list and add 'kernel', and 'kernel-source' (without the 's) to
the file. The 2.4.21-1 kernel you've got is fine for now. -5 is
current now, but you can get it later.
Then copy skip.list to skip.mt (empty), skip.xfree, skip.kde,
skip.gnome, and skip.alot. In skip.xfree add all the rpms you get
when you run 'rpm -qa | grep -i xfree' in a console, but without the
versioning numbers. EG, XFree86-4, not XFree86-4.3-0.20030210.1mdk.
Do the same for kde, gnome. Then cat the skip.xfree, gnome and kde to
skip.alot. IE, everything in each file goes into skip.alot
Copy skip.alot to skip.list (overwrite, remember you've still got
an empty skip list saved in skip.mt). Then run 'urpmi.update -a &&
urpmi --auto-select' on your cooker mirror. I guesstimate this will be
less than 100MB's of updates, about 5 to 6 hours on a dialup. So
start it at bedtime ;)
Now you've got your base system current, you can start to get
kde, gnome, and xfree current. Edit this current skip.list (really a
copy of skip.alot) and remove what you want to install, eg, all the
xfree entries. Run 'urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select' again
(maybe another night?) and you'll have xfree 4.3 current CVS.
Similar for gnome and kde (other nights?).
All these are fairly large updates. This jocking around of skip
files lets you do it selectively at a pace a dialup can handle.
Notice in the above you keep your original skip.xfree, skip.gnome,
skip.mt and skip.kde files, ie, use 'cp', not 'mv'. You'll need 'em
again as Laurent likes to update (specially kde pachages) alot. Often
several times a day. XFree gets updated about weekly, I don't really
pay a lot of attention to gnome as I don't use it. So just get
current on an every week or so basis, doin it in several nightly
sessions at your own pace. You don't need each successive patch
level, goin from where you are to the current patch level (-__mdk) is
fine. As a rule of thumb, I use to get about every 5th update of
files like kdebase when I was on dialup.
You could also copy the contents of the 3 CD's to create a local
mirror on your harddrive, then use rsync on a mirror that supports
it, to keep current. It'd be less d/l'ing, but I don't know how-to,
as I've never even tried it. I use to stay cooker current with a
dialup in the ol' pre-urpmi days by going to cooker mirrors and d/l
by the dates shown on the mirrors, by hand, ie, anything I had
installed but with a newer date and versioning number. A real PITA,
specially deps ;) urpmi is your friend. With all major updates
(kde, gnome), login/out a few times to settle the system. After a
xfree update, also restart the X server (Crl-Alt-Backspace) before
you login to X.
If you do all the above, by next weekend you'll probly have 9.1 RC1
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