On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 11:33 -0700, Srinath M wrote:
Hi all,
Everything was going fine till I reached the stage where you install
the first package (binutils) from source. While copying the source from
the liveCD onto the hdd for unpacking, I started getting buffer I/O
errors and the file
Hi all,
Everything was going fine till I reached the stage where you install
the first package (binutils) from source. While copying the source from
the liveCD onto the hdd for unpacking, I started getting buffer I/O
errors and the file could not be copied. When I tried a second time
after
Srinath M wrote:
Obviously, the CDROM drive on my Laptop has gone flaky.
Not unnecessarily, it may be that the kernel on the live cd has not been
compiled with support for your particular chipset.
Now I'm looking
for an alternate method to start the installation. The 12 Gig HDD in my
Srinath M wrote:
I think it might be what Andrew says or simply, my drive lens or some
component is not cooperating. I checked the specs on the cdrom. For my
Thinkpad 390X, 'crn-8241b-(sm)' is the model/unit number or whatever
for the CDROM hardware.
How much memory do you have? You can
Actually yes, that could make sense. The system has 128M of physical
RAM. I take it that the live CD pools space from this in order to
populate the executables. That would leave me with lesser RAM for
whatever stuff I do. And to top this all, I simply ASSUMED that 'mkswap
/dev/hda2' ensures that
No luck :(
Can I post the output of dmesg here?
--- Justin R. Knierim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Srinath M wrote:
I think it might be what Andrew says or simply, my drive lens or
some
component is not cooperating. I checked the specs on the cdrom. For
my
Thinkpad 390X, 'crn-8241b-(sm)'
Srinath M wrote:
No luck :(
Can I post the output of dmesg here?
:( Sure, or you can post as an attachment bzipped.
Justin
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Hi,
I've attached the output from dmesg. Any pointers are welcome :)
--- Justin R. Knierim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Srinath M wrote:
No luck :(
Can I post the output of dmesg here?
:( Sure, or you can post as an attachment bzipped.
Justin
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