[gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[Rafael Barrera Oro]

Hi everyone

Has any of you actually succeded in installing Gentoo using the
experimental LiveCD with the recently born graphical installer? If the
answer is yes (i sure hope so) what options did you use?

I've been trying for a while, still no success.

Respectfully

Rafael

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Re: [gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:39 +0000, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> Has any of you actually succeded in installing Gentoo using the
> experimental LiveCD with the recently born graphical installer? If the
> answer is yes (i sure hope so) what options did you use?
> 
> I've been trying for a while, still no success.

I have done several installations.  On all of them, I used dynamic
stage3 + GRP + livecd-kernel on x86.

Are you doing this on AMD64?

How about instead of asking us what we did that worked, you tell us what
did not work for you, since there are tons of people getting it working
successfully.

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Re: [gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[Rafael Barrera Oro]

You are probably right.

I have an Athlon XP 2000 and a VIA KT4AV Mother
i tried the installed choosing dynamic stage 3, and grp packages
it always crashes when it gets to merging the aditional packages,
unless an input/output error due to a "read only filesystem" pops up
first

after the input/output error i always have to reboot since the system
stops responding

i tried both installers found on the LiveCD

thanks in advance

Rafael

On 1/19/06, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:39 +0000, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > Has any of you actually succeded in installing Gentoo using the
> > experimental LiveCD with the recently born graphical installer? If the
> > answer is yes (i sure hope so) what options did you use?
> >
> > I've been trying for a while, still no success.
>
> I have done several installations.  On all of them, I used dynamic
> stage3 + GRP + livecd-kernel on x86.
>
> Are you doing this on AMD64?
>
> How about instead of asking us what we did that worked, you tell us what
> did not work for you, since there are tons of people getting it working
> successfully.
>
> --
> Chris Gianelloni
> Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
> x86 Architecture Team
> Games - Developer
> Gentoo Linux
>
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Re: [gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[Andrew Gaffney]

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> You are probably right.
> 
> I have an Athlon XP 2000 and a VIA KT4AV Mother
> i tried the installed choosing dynamic stage 3, and grp packages
> it always crashes when it gets to merging the aditional packages,
> unless an input/output error due to a "read only filesystem" pops up
> first
> 
> after the input/output error i always have to reboot since the system
> stops responding
> 
> i tried both installers found on the LiveCD

Try fixing your hardware. When a filesystem suddenly goes read-only, that's 
almost a sure sign of a failing drive.

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Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project

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Re: [gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[Bryan Quigley]

I would try using the latest installer if you aren't already..

On 1/19/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > You are probably right.
> >
> > I have an Athlon XP 2000 and a VIA KT4AV Mother
> > i tried the installed choosing dynamic stage 3, and grp packages
> > it always crashes when it gets to merging the aditional packages,
> > unless an input/output error due to a "read only filesystem" pops up
> > first
> >
> > after the input/output error i always have to reboot since the system
> > stops responding
> >
> > i tried both installers found on the LiveCD
>
> Try fixing your hardware. When a filesystem suddenly goes read-only, that's
> almost a sure sign of a failing drive.
>
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> Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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>

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Re: [gentoo-installer] Succesful installation

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:26 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> i tried the installed choosing dynamic stage 3, and grp packages

Which packages?

> it always crashes when it gets to merging the aditional packages,
> unless an input/output error due to a "read only filesystem" pops up
> first

Well, depending on the packages, it might not be pulling from GRP.

> after the input/output error i always have to reboot since the system
> stops responding

I'd have to agree with Andrew, it does sound like a hardware issue,
especially if it is happening with both installer front-ends.

Have you verified that your hard drive is not going bad?

Also, try updating the installer to CVS.  Instructions are in the FAQ
(linked on the desktop).

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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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[gentoo-installer] Re: Succesful installation

[Rafael Barrera Oro]

First of all thanks for the feedback everyone.

I guess you are all right to suspect a hardware problem but i am using
extensively tested equipment (or at least i been told so). Anyway,
yesterday i succeded, the only change i made was choosing the liveCD
kernel instead of the gentoo sources, and so far, everything is
working, does it makes sense to you?


Rafael

On 1/19/06, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:26 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > i tried the installed choosing dynamic stage 3, and grp packages
>
> Which packages?
>
> > it always crashes when it gets to merging the aditional packages,
> > unless an input/output error due to a "read only filesystem" pops up
> > first
>
> Well, depending on the packages, it might not be pulling from GRP.
>
> > after the input/output error i always have to reboot since the system
> > stops responding
>
> I'd have to agree with Andrew, it does sound like a hardware issue,
> especially if it is happening with both installer front-ends.
>
> Have you verified that your hard drive is not going bad?
>
> Also, try updating the installer to CVS.  Instructions are in the FAQ
> (linked on the desktop).
>
> --
> Chris Gianelloni
> Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
> x86 Architecture Team
> Games - Developer
> Gentoo Linux
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-installer] Re: Succesful installation

[Andrew Gaffney]

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> First of all thanks for the feedback everyone.
> 
> I guess you are all right to suspect a hardware problem but i am using
> extensively tested equipment (or at least i been told so). Anyway,
> yesterday i succeded, the only change i made was choosing the liveCD
> kernel instead of the gentoo sources, and so far, everything is
> working, does it makes sense to you?

That would take a little bit of stress off the disks since it doesn't have to 
compile a kernel, but I'm still going to blame your hardware. The installer 
doesn't do anything that would make your filesystems suddenly turn read-only. 
Also, random failures (not reproducible) are almost always hardware related.

I've done probably 80+ installs with various versions of the installer using the 
same LiveCD on a few different boxes, and I have never had the problems you are 
describing.

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[gentoo-installer] Re: Succesful installation

[Rafael Barrera Oro]

Well then, its a hardware failure allright, i will now proceed to
cross my fingers and hope the promblem dissapeared magicaly, if it
fails again ill go shopping i guess.

Thanks for your help!

Rafa

On 1/20/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > First of all thanks for the feedback everyone.
> >
> > I guess you are all right to suspect a hardware problem but i am using
> > extensively tested equipment (or at least i been told so). Anyway,
> > yesterday i succeded, the only change i made was choosing the liveCD
> > kernel instead of the gentoo sources, and so far, everything is
> > working, does it makes sense to you?
>
> That would take a little bit of stress off the disks since it doesn't have
> to
> compile a kernel, but I'm still going to blame your hardware. The installer
> doesn't do anything that would make your filesystems suddenly turn
> read-only.
> Also, random failures (not reproducible) are almost always hardware related.
>
> I've done probably 80+ installs with various versions of the installer using
> the
> same LiveCD on a few different boxes, and I have never had the problems you
> are
> describing.
>
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> Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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>

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