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Old 02-10-2006, 02:27 AM   #1
gepas
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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
 
Old 02-10-2006, 03:06 PM   #2
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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?
 
  


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