I've been hung up on this issue most of the afternoon so I'm throwing in the towel and seeing if anyone else has a solution I have not tried yet.
Trying to install slackware 10.1 on an old laptop. I'll cover what Ive done then explain the error/issues. For reference the laptop has no CD drive, maybe a 1.5Gb HDD, no built-in ethernet.
:: Downloaded ISO's for disc 1 and 2 - no Linux box available right now so I'm left with a windows 2000 box as a remote file holder to make things more fun and interesting
:: Unzipped ISO's to a single directory (C:\slackware-10.1-iso) on 2000 box
:: Set up an NFS share for C:\slackware-10.1-iso\ called \slack with anon rw access for all (whee)
:: Downloaded the floppy disk images for bare.i, install.1, install.2 and also pcmcia.dsk (for the pcmcia 10/100 card to give laptop eth capabiltiies).
:: Booted up laptop, juggled floppies, got to login and prompt
:: ifconfig'd eth0 and route'd it. Can ping various machines on my network so that works
:: mount'd a folder (/install) to the dfs folder on the 2000 machine
"mount 192.168.173.2:/slack /install"
i can walk the directry so i assume it either worked or my laptop has the mysterious mind-reading package already built in
:: started setup (fdisked on a previous boot so partitions are already setup)
ADDSWAP option used, swap setup ok
TARGET option used, partitions all assigned
SOURCE <<<==== ARGH
SOURCE selection is also the source (heh) of all my problems, I have tried:
1) FAIL manually pre-mounting my share to /install then setting /install as the install source
2) FAIL manually pre-mounting my share to /install then setting /install/slackware as the install source
3) FAIL auto-magically setting the DFS share from the SOURCE menu option and using the /slack DFS share folder as the source
4) FAIL same as above but using /slack/slackware
I would outline all of the specific results for each option but I seem to be getting mixed results (and have done this like 20+ times so i'm getting hazy and don't have the energy to set up my partitions 4 more times right now)
Basically the only two things I have gotten are:
1) It gives me the general package selection screen (kernel, gnome, X, etc), then afterwards the selection method screen (ie, expert, newbie, etc), then 7 seconds later tries to tell me everything was installed and I should reboot (which is obviously a dirty evil trick to confuse me, sincethis machine can't do anything in 7 seconds)
2) 3 lines of error messages flash by on the bottom of the screen. Alt-F4 isn't giving me any info but it looks something like:
/var/log/setup/tmp/tmpscript: cannot create /var/log/tmp/series: Is a directory
rm /var/log/setup/tmp/series: is a directory
rm /var/log/setup/tmp/series: is a directory
*warning, I had to hit the button like 50 times to watch those scroll by, so they may be a little incorrect
i'm going to try wiping out that folder manually and retrying the install pointing at /slack/slackare one more time. If anyone has some input I'd love it. Plan on writing this up afterwards since I think the last writeup for this laptop was a Slack 3.0 install (don't ask how old this thing
) and I want to see how well it handles 10.1 as a couch browsing machine (I'm betting on slow :P )
-T