Installion problems on multi distro machine [solved]
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I had to use ide-legacy to boot the real machine. As the disk was already prepared I went straight to option 3. Set Filesystem Mountpoints and set the swap (overwrite), / (ext3/overwrite) and boot (ext2/no overwrite) partitions. Then on selecting all base packages I get I get error
checking package integrity...error: archive kernel-headers-2.6.19
Package installation failed
Continued with 4. configure system anyway and a get a load of mount point errors and the chroot fails. When I edit (vim) the list of configuration files, they're all empty and if I try to add anything I get error E212: Can't open file for writing. Obviously I can't set the password either.
So I thought I'd try the ftp base installl. The network set up was fine. Instead of the above package integrity error, I get
error: the following file conflicts were found :
grub: /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst: exists in filesystem
errors occured, no packages were upgraded
Package installation failed
Also I get a load of errors on trying to install the kernel, but at least there was no package corruption.
I tried both methods a number of times. With the CD install I sometimes get more CD errors. With ftp base install I get exactly the same problems. I also tried preparing the disk within the install using cfdisk. However, when I deleted /dev/hda10 and created a new one, cdfisk wanted to rename most of the other partitions, so i didn't go ahead with that. I've seen this problem with cfdisk before.
I know I could move the virtual machine to the real machine, but I rather not have the hassle. Anyone got some workarounds?
Last edited by grazie (2007-02-18 16:43:40)
Thanks for your reply mutlu_inek.
mutlu_inek wrote:What do you mean by "overwrite"? Formatting?
Yes the installer gives the option to format or not, selected partitions during the installation. The app uses the terms overwrite/no overwrite.
mutlu_inek wrote:Maybe your designated /boot partition is corrupted (or not actually ext2)? Maybe you should try formatting it.
The /boot partition was ext2 and I wasn't aware of any corruption. The fsck check on booting was fine and no other distro was having problems. However, removing the kernels and config files or reformatting the /boot partition seemed like good option that I hadn't yet tried. I backed up the partition and allowed the installer to format/overwrite it during the install. This fixed all the problems.
mutlu_inek wrote:The partition naming/numbering sheme is ordered. If you delete a partition and then re-create it, it will have the same name. If you just delete it, names of partitions with higher numbers will change. That is not cfdisk specific, not even Linux-specific.
My disk has 10 partitions. Within cfdisk I deleted /dev/hda10 created and recreated it. However, rather than getting a new /dev/hda10 the partition was designated /dev/hda7 with the original 7, 8 and 9 all reassigned. I'd say this was a bug.
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