Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

[Stew Benedict]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 pascal.gagnon@sympatico.ca wrote:

> > 
> > I think I'm lost on what you're trying to accomplish.  Working 8.2 or
> > cooker?  As I said, cooker will have issues.  I doubt kde or gnome will be
> > fully functional, as a number of the needed files are not present on the
> > mirrors.  You should be able to get a functional command line environment
> > though, and probably X with a more basic window manager.
> > 
> > Your other alternative is to use 
> the 8.2 update packages available on the
> > club, to get the newer apps.
> 
> Since a clean cooker install doesn't work for me, I try first to install 8.2 then upgrade. I don't really want a minimal install (I want X to work at least) but I just wanted to report the bug with minimal 8.2 --> It crash in text mode.
> 
> For the clean cooker install, the problem seems to be in one of the script during the installation. When I reboot, there's no hdaxx inside the /dev/ so it can't be mount. I tried to make a "ln -s" to the /dev/ide/....../partxx but doesn't survive a reboot. Is it a devfs problem ?
> 

If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links,
they're created dynamically.  Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV or dev
rpm.  There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas.

What are you using for the installer for your clean cooker?  I know for
sure that the installer on the mirrors does not reflect where we ended up
at the end of 8.2.

> The only problem to install gnome2 seems to be the sgml-common package. It is not recent enough four the taste of doc-dtd412, so scrollkeeper. So I got a /etc/xml/catalog missing or empty.
> Icewm-light works well but I'm using fbdev.
> 

Sounds like you are at least functional then with cooker?  Once the
remaining packages appear, things should get better.

Stew Benedict

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