Slackware 10.2 install starts, blinks, but does not do anything ??
 

Hello there,

I'm trying to install Slackware 10.2 on a SCSI RAID5 array Mylex DAC960 controller. There are not CD-ROMs, nor IDE disks attached to the system. The Slackware ISO images are mounted on a fat32 partition from the RAID in the following way:
mkdir -p /iso
mount -t vfat /dev/rd/c0d0p1 /iso
mkdir /INSTALL
mount -o loop (-t iso9660) /iso/slack_10.2_cd1.iso /INSTALL

All this works OK and "ls -la /INSTALL" sees all the installation files and directories.

Now I run "setup", configure swap, targer, source (pre-mounted directory /INSTALL) and select package groups at the SELECT screen from the setup. Everything is successful and works fine until now. BUT when I choose Install -> full (menu, newbie, or any mode) the installer starts working for 2-3 seconds, the screen blinks for a second showing some error which I cannot see because it is very fast, and then says "Setup Complete, please reboot, etc.". Which is not true since the installer has not done anything for its 2 seconds of work!

How can I see what errors were shown on the blinking screen just before "Setup complete" appears?? As far as I can see only the first part of the lines the message starts with: "/usr/lib..." and there are a couple a lines...

How can I see what is this error (it is not shown in dmesg) ?!?!?!
Why everything is fine but I cannot install Slackware at this step ??

Thank you
Evgeni

i've seen similiar errors when there wasn't enough disk space on the partition being installed to.

i'm assuming you have used fdisk and created partitions?