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| Summary: | impossible installing from hard disk or FTP | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Frank-Michael Fischer <fmfischer> |
| Component: | Installation | Assignee: | Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf> |
| Severity: | Critical | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | anders, kernel01 |
| Version: | Beta 8 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Beta-Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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the YaST2 installation log as requested
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Description
Frank-Michael Fischer
2006-01-22 17:09:06 UTC
I could install from .iso images on harddisk (ok, had to loop-mount them by hand, but it worked just fine). Please check if you still have this problem once Beta4 is out. Please, check with Beta4 (or newer) and if the bug still occurres, attach the logs. The core library of the package manager has been replaced. Checked: Can still not specify "hard disk" or "local directory" when booting from mini-iso. After falling back to "manual" I am allowed to specify my local directory, a bit later I get the result: "An error occurred during the installation". Some error messages I could spot on the other terminals: "cannot open file us.map.gz.map" and "Cannot find map file" and "kernel modules not enabled" and "Cannot build symbol table - disabling symbol lookups" Everything else looks normal. Tried the same with CD1 instead of mini-iso: same outcome. The error message "An error occurred during installation" happens right after "analyzing partitioning". My /CD1-/CD5 directories sit on partition hda8 which is formatted ext3. Using FTP installation as workaround does not work either. It stops at "Die Paketauswahl wird ausgewertet". After that (like in the hard disk installation case) there is no terminal available which would accept keyboard input. with Beta5 I tried to start an FTP installation. Installation stops (after having chosen "Gnome" installation) at the "Installation Settings" screen with the error message: Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error? Is there a workaround? I've just installed 10.1 Beta5 from FTP without any problem... Could you, pelase, attach logs from the failed installations? Where would my installation write logs before the error occurs? Having a look at CTRL-ALT-Fn does not show any useful messages. There are (luckily!) no partitions mounted yet. So what do you mean by "logs", please? /var/log/YaST2/y2log See http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST for more information. When the error occurres, switch to console tar-up /var/log/YaST2/ directory, and eg. via SCP copy it to hard disk of another machine or moutn another partition on the machine and copy it there. Created attachment 70226 [details]
the YaST2 installation log as requested
found a workaround: switching to anonymous ftp resolves the problem. Seems the installation routine somehow forgets the ftp password between accessing CD1 and CD2 I will, however, not proceed installing beta 5 on this machine as I am getting a weird partitioning suggestion at the "Installation Settings" screen. Viz comment #32 bug 151947 Anonymous ftp installation using DHCP and the only software selection made is the Gnome desktop. Installation starts fine, then after the first reboot, I'm met with the box shown in the image attachement following. Created attachment 70293 [details]
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It might be the number at the end of the installation source path. Does it work even if you change the path in order not to end with a number? The problem with the number has already been resolved, marking the bug as FIXED. Installation from hard disk is still not working: 1. There is no option for this type of installation when booting CD1. 2. So one needs to use the "manual=1" option (which is actually not documented neither through F1 nor the Release Notes). 3. In this case the user needs to load both the IDE and file system module manually. 4. In case the local distro directories sit on a partition which is supposed to be part of this installation later on, e.g. the "/home" partition, the installation fails miserably because in the moment the user tells YaST2 to mount this partition as "/home" in the FINAL system, YaST2 tries to mount it right away. But it is already mounted since it contains the distro directories. The mount fails and the installation stops. This I cannot consider fixed. Steffen, issues 1,2 and 3 looks like linuxrc problem. 4) is storage related, adding Thomas to cc. To my knowledge installation from hard disk is unsupprted anyway so why care. Hard disk install in not officially supported (but works fine). It apparently only works fine if the user is reasonable enough not to use the partition used as installation media for other purposes (e.g. as /home partition). |