Compaq Presario 5610 cannot install RH8
Machine: Compaq Presario 5610 Pentium II 366mz 128mb IDE harddrive 8gb Compaq DVD-ROM GD-2000 Iomega Zip 100 Generic NEC floppy display: Rage LT PRO AGP 2x network: PCI Fast Ethernet Windows 98 in 4gb partition. 4gb is used for this Linux install. downloaded ISOs: MD5SUM checks ok. linux mediacheck ok Boots from cdrom. Press Enter. Shows this message quickly then goes on: 'Loading unknown module' I have found no way to determine what this problem is. The install continues, I make my selections and it starts to load the packages. I get the following message no matter what type of install I select: The file /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/glibc-common-2.93-5.386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press to try again. The file name is different depending on which intall type I select. The above was for the most basic. If I try a workstation install, it actually installs almost a gig of package before halting with a similar message but a different file name. When I press return I get some python error messages ending with: IOError: [Error 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/source/.diskinfo' When I try to copy the messages to a disk the system locks up. If I just click Enter, the system goes to reboot. I have checked the cdrom and .diskinfo is there and readable. I have tried loading the drive images. 'linux dd' I have tried turning off dma both in the boot setup and with 'linux ide=nodma' Also tried a text install instead of gui. Same results. The install always fails. I need help badly. Thanks Cy Ball Senior Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
RE: Compaq Presario 5610 cannot install RH8
I tried an ftp install. It connects then fails immediately with an error that starts "This Should not happen!' I just found an update on bugzilla on bug number that seems to address a similar problem. Will try the fix tomorrow and let you know what happens. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Iain Buchanan Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 5610 cannot install RH8 On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:54, Cy Ball wrote: [snip] > The file /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/glibc-common-2.93-5.386.rpm cannot be opened. > This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press > to try again. [snip] > The install always fails. > > I need help badly. I also had a similar problem with various installs. The media check returned ok for all cd's. The only way I could get around it was to put the cd contents onto another machine and do an ftp install. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We don't smoke and we don't chew, and we don't go with girls that do. -- Walter Summers -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
RE: Compaq Presario 5610 cannot install RH8
Problem Solved! I finally was able to search bugzilla and found the solution there: bug#75377 It has a link to an update image for anaconda: http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/8.0-cdread.img The installer now works ok. It still could not read some of the largest rpm's (open office) but does not crash. so I installed without them. There are still some problems reading very large files from the DVD-ROM. I may have to ftp them from Red Hat. The system is now up and running and I can install the packages I want at my leisure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antonio montagnani Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 5610 cannot install RH8 Iain Buchanan wrote: >On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:54, Cy Ball wrote: >[snip] > > >>The file /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/glibc-common-2.93-5.386.rpm cannot be opened. >>This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press >>to try again. >> >> >[snip] > > >>The install always fails. >> >>I need help badly. >> >> >I also had a similar problem with various installs. The media check >returned ok for all cd's. The only way I could get around it was to put >the cd contents onto another machine and do an ftp install. > > > Exactly the same problem trying to make un update from RH7.3 to 8.0 on two different desktops (PII233, Pentium III): clean installation went fine on both.. Antonio -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Debug linux to Windows Printer problem
I have set up a printer on a windows machine as a shared printer. Samba is set up on my RH8.0 machine. I can see the shares properly on both machines. When I use the test on the printer configuration program, it says it sent the test page to the printer. Nothing happens. When I use lpq to look at the queue, I find: Printer: hp5l@localhost Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: keeping error job 'root@localhost+375' at 10:58:47.454 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time error root@localhost+222 A 222 ERROR: job removal requested How can I find out what is going on? I have searched web for clues, but find nothing useful. Help please! -- Cy Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Debug linux to Windows Printer problem
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:01, Cy Ball wrote: > I have set up a printer on a windows machine as a shared printer. > Samba is set up on my RH8.0 machine. I can see the shares properly on > both machines. > > When I use the test on the printer configuration program, it says it > sent the test page to the printer. > > Nothing happens. When I use lpq to look at the queue, I find: > > Printer: hp5l@localhost > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Server: no server active > Status: keeping error job 'root@localhost+375' at 10:58:47.454 > Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size > Time > error root@localhost+222 A 222 ERROR: job removal requested > > > How can I find out what is going on? I have searched web for clues, but > find nothing useful. > > Help please! > The problem was solved when I went to my Windows ME computer and un-shared the printer and then shared it again. Why? Only Microsoft knows. -- Cy Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
