Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23974
disk one of two - NEITHER of which work
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
install exited abnormally - over a dozen attempts at install -no luck -different reason every time. -error 9 - error 11 - can't read lib files. Purchased with book - even the book has errors and omissions. Purchased second disk -VER 7 - actually had part of it installed, but not Gnome .Can,t decide how much space it needs . At one point wanted 545M more space in the / .Again multiple attempts -multiple failures - multiple excuses, the last of which follows Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in? intf.run(todo, test = test) and yes, I tried every conceivable type of installation, including minimum. Will make one final attempt and if it doesn't shape up, both disks go in the garbage and the book goes in the fire - but not before I reformat and go back to dos and windows. NG Carbert
I'm not aware of Red Hat Linux being in a book. Version 6.1 is a very old version. What does the first screen say that comes up?
Thanks for your comments! OK, here's the deal: attempting to install to a 586 - 48 meg EDO - 1 gig HD so I could get into linux. The book -Red hat linux for dummies (poetic?) ;authored Jon Hall & Paul Serry. Install detects everything correctly except the monitor -fun begins :-) unpacks the kernel , mounts file system, first hint of trouble - Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached;, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filessystem) Greetings. REd Hat install init version 6.0 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done mounting /dev/pts (unix89 pty) filesystem... done checking for writable /temp... yes running install... running /sbin/loader install exited abnormally -- received ssignal 11 sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /mnt/source /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system "HOW?? TO WHAT??" second attempt: loaads goes through install as far as 'Package Installation" -processing window -GNU libc libraries ----New msg spread all over the screenwith pretty red background----- install exited abnormally -- received signal 7 sending termination signals , etc; 3M of 562 installed 3rd atteempt this morning; 82 packages 108M installed received signal 7 etc;; This is the first time in over 50 ties it's been this far. 4th attempt goes through to pkg install - interesting design on background -------------- -------------- - <cursor> disk space You don't appear to ;have enough space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems Mount Point Space Needed / 521M OK (Oh yeah!) installation to begin pkg inst processing disk space again / needs 521M OK preparing to install diskspace 521M? are you having as much fun as I am :-) back to current disk partitions / 80M /usr 826M - Hey I just want to get it installed swap 48M recommended by book changed to swap 48M / 605 M - in case it needs 521 plus the original 80 /usr 300M Not enough space - not allocated drive summary drive Geom [C/H/S] Total Used Free hda [971/32/63] 955M 653M 302M [###### ] no way to edit /usr - delete all new- / 605M /swap 48M /usr 100M grow to fill disk -actual == 302M neat eh? installation to begin window= Eception Occurred Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 225 in? intf.run(todo,test = test) File "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr.lib/python1.5/site-packagees/text.py"' line 572, in __call__ OK Debug Ok kills tried debug once before fills the screen with something like [24 ?
PS -had breakfast and when I came back gui installer was up what the heck--pushed some buttons. preparing to install not enough space need 283M /usr --- is that in addition to the 302M allocated? How much actual disk space is required to install Gnome? Install says packages total 562M. Is it possible to put Gnome on a 1 gig driv? This is ver 6.1 -- how much space required for ver7? I beleive the installer is ver 6.0 Need more coffee. :-) NGC
Part of the problem is you have Linux already installed (if you do a 'df' command under 6.1 how much space is free?). When you install it has to take into account the already existing files. If you just installed over the 6.1 (and formatted the drives) it would fit in 1 Gig (I'm not saying erase all your DATA!).
The install was attempted to a completely empty 1 gig drive. Formatted, fdisked and given entirely to linux. linux formatted it all to a system that took me two days to recover because nothing that normally worked before was valid. I finally had to format the drive using a batch file killer from the old days, then I got my hard drive back. Now running DOS and win95 ( light years ahead of linux). Thanks for your input and I hope you can get linux up to speed in the near future as I truly believe there is a need for such a OS. If I might offer one small bit of advice - concentrate on a decent installer and getting the required disk space for the GUI down to a reasonable level. I'd like to stay with you but I don't know enough about this to be of any help and I don't have the time to play with it. reddog : over and out.
Sorry this did not work this time - please open a new report if you have any future problems.