On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:53 -0400, Glenn Taylor wrote: > M-L wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: > >> ----> Bruno Buys wrote: > >> ----> > Glenn Taylor wrote: > >> ----> > > >> ----> >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running > >> RedHat ----> >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge. > >> PC is an ----> >> AMD k6 300mhz on a Asus P5a-b board with 256mb RAM and > >> an 80g IDE drive. ----> >> > >> ----> >> RH8 ran fine on this machine but I thought it was time for a > >> change. I ----> >> use it as a web/mail server to play with. > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> Net install always boots fine but will fail randomly at different > >> steps ----> >> during the install. It may fail at choose keyboard or it > >> may make it as ----> >> far as installing base system. Most of the time > >> when it fails it will ----> >> report a failure on a red screen and let you > >> go back and repeat the step ----> >> that failed. If I keep repeating > >> steps it will proceed but fail again ----> >> at another random point. > >> Occasionally it just locks up. > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> I have tried linux and linux26 with npapic acpi=off > >> ----> >> I have tried the full netinstall CD and the business card CD > >> install. ----> >> I have tried different cds and even cd drive. > >> ----> >> I have even tried the floppy install. > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> Now for the really strange part. If I pop in Ubuntu Breezy Badger > >> ----> >> install cd it will complete without a single error! > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> Any ideas of what to try? This is more of a challenge at the > >> moment and ----> >> I hate to give up. > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> Thanks > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> Glenn > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> > >> ----> >> > >> ----> > Is the netinstall image you're using up to date? Maybe downloading > >> the ----> > latest one can be an idea. > >> ----> > > >> ----> > You can open another terminal and cat some files in /var/log to see > >> ----> > what's going on. > >> ----> > > >> ----> > I ran debian base system on a amd k6 300 with 64megs on an asus > >> ----> > motherboard for sometime. The only trouble was when the hdd started > >> to ----> > age. The netinstall always worked ok. > >> ----> > > >> ----> > >> ----> Tried 3 different CDs downloaded and burnt on two different PCs. All > >> ----> three CDs have installed no problem on other PCs. Even tried floppy > >> ----> install. Changed CD drives. > >> ----> Tried 2 more installs just now. > >> ----> > >> ----> 1. tty1 stuck at Detecting Newtwork Hardware > >> ----> last line in messages was insmod /lib/....../isofs.ko > >> ----> last line in syslog was init: ^MStarting PID 486, console /dev/vc/2 > >> ----> ;'/bin/sh' > >> ----> > >> ----> 2. Got error message ! Load Installer components from CD > >> ----> Failed to load installer components > >> ----> Loading os-probe failed for unknown reasons, aborting > >> ----> exact same lines in logs as above > >> ----> > >> ----> Glenn > >> ----> > > > > Old machine? burn the CD's at a slower speed than normal so that the CD > > drive > > can read them. This has been the case with me on several old machines. The > > slower the burn speed the better, and they will read on just about any old > > CD > > drive. > > > > HTH > > > Thanks for the suggestion but CD #3 above I burnt it a 2x, the slowest > choice I had. The cd drive in the failing AMD machine is a fairly > recent 48x drive. It also has no trouble with the Ubuntu install which > came from the same CD burner at full speed. > > Thanks > Glenn > I had problems during installation of Sarge using an old (> 3yr) cd. I swapped in a newer one and everything went O.K. The old cd worked fine under RH 9 and Knoppix. I don't think that the problem is the media, the driver in the install kit. HTH. Chuck
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