2008/11/29 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just wrote a long email about trying to install 0.5 reliably and > reproducibly, but I decided not to send it, but to just ask if other people > could share their experience.
That is very strange. The only "reliability" issue I have seen is that -- when using USB disks instead of a CD/DVD, the installer (anaconda) sometimes crashes. This happens 100% of the time if I use the graphical anaconda purely via keyboard. If I use the text mode installer, then the failure is very rare. Ideas: - make sure you run the install with the 'kickstart' option from the startup menu - check that at the end of the installation you get a dialog that says "installation complete" -- that indicates that anaconda finished correctly. If the machine restarts on its own, the install has failed. - check the md5sum of the iso you've downloaded to make sure it's not corrupted http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/checksums.md5 I'm very happy that you're trying 0.5 even in cmplex conditions. Don't stop -- and keep telling us about things that work, and things that don't. > On one "reinstall", it all went OK but no sign of the > "olpc-scripts" folder when I tried to configure it. Nothing there in the > /etc/sysconfig folder. That could be explained by either an incomplete install, or not using the kickstart option... > · On another, all OK but the active antenna was not working, > although first time I tried to install it – it was fine. The reason I tried Same. > Maybe it is the "ID ten T problem" Don't think so ;-) -- we do have some annoying anaconda bugs lurking, specially when installing from usb. The Fedora folks suggest that it's fixed in F10 but I haven't tried yet. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
