Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-11-23 18:02, CwCrei wrote:
Many thanks for all your help and suggestions,
Not a problem.. I just wish we could have got a handle on this.
If you do get a resolution, please be sure to post a follow-up here,
even if just the URL of a bug report on the Novell bugzilla.
Okay, well, no bug report, but here's the progress to date...
I stripped the machine I had been attempting to install 10.1 on and used
the memory and HDD along with a different FDD, NIC, video card, sound
card and CD-ROM (the original machine had built-in sound and video), to
build up a dual 500MHz P3 'board I've had sitting around waiting to be
turned into a server.
I find it hard to believe that YaST is so badly written that it
completely stiffs an entire machine just because it can't find a file.
So the fact that the machine stiffs must indicate some more fundamental
problem.
So I booted the newly built machine with the net-install CD, the BIOS
warned me that my HDD was about to die, which I ignored 'cause
there's damn all I can do about it right now, pointed YaST at my LAN's
FTP server, and off it went - *far* further than it did last time.
I was suprised that it took almost three quarters of an hour to download
the initial installation system (/boot/i386/root) from the FTP server.
*Way* slower than the previous machine. This is over a 100Mbps LAN!
But when it got there, I got a different screen, with the Novell 'N' in
the top left corner, and a rather nice 'throbber' in the middle at the
bottom, and the installation continued.
YaST makes something like another 170 requests from the FTP server, all
of which succeed, until it asks for /add_on_products, which fails (I
added the contents of the non-OSS ISO to the other five SuSE ISOs on the
FTP server, which may or may not have been the right thing to do).
I get a couple of complaints along the way about being unable to find
'add-ons', whatever they are, but eventually I get to 'Installation
Settings', and under the 'Software' sub-heading, I get, "Cannot read
package data from installation media. Media Error? ERROR. No proposal."
I fiddle around with the 'Software Selection and System Tasks',
selecting all the software packages, but when I try to continue, I get a
popup window full of multiple "Dependency conflict, there are no
installable providers of...", errors.
Trying to proceed from the 'Installation Settings', screen, gives me the
error, "The proposal contains an error that must be resolved before
continuing." The only error is under the 'Software' subheading, and I
can't resolve that, so I can't proceed...
Roughly a decade ago, I took Colin Plumb's MD5 C source and wrote a
recursive checksum utility - point it at a directory and it'll work it's
way through the structure, calculating checksums for every file it
encounters. It was a bloody useful tool back then, and I could do with
it again right now. I can't make md5sum do the same - I assume it only
does single files. What I really need is checksums of everything on a
functioning 10.1 installation site, to compare with what I've put
together on mine by copying everything off the ISOs into a single
directory...
But then, I don't see anything called 'add_on_products' on the
mirrorservice.org site either...
So, in summary: The hung machine was almost certainly down to a hardware
problem of some sort (I may investigate this at some point, depending on
how much other people care - I've got to give the machine away for my
parents to run XP on before too long, which it was doing reasonably well
for me up until a few months ago) - I have got much further down the
road with a different MoBo, NIC, video and sound cards. However, I still
appear to have problems with missing files on my FTP server which are
stopping YaST from progressing. Two steps forward... :)
Take care. :)
PJ - NP: Ease / PiL. Sakamoto, Baker, *and* Vai... :)
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