Re: Failing Sarge net install

charles norwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:53 -0400, Glenn Taylor wrote:
M-L wrote:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote:
----> Bruno Buys wrote:
----> > Glenn Taylor wrote:
----> >
----> >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running
RedHat ----> >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge.
PC is an ----> >> AMD k6 300mhz on a Asus P5a-b board with 256mb RAM and
an 80g IDE drive. ----> >>
----> >> RH8 ran fine on this machine but I thought it was time for a
change. I ----> >> use it as a web/mail server to play with.
----> >>
----> >> Net install always boots fine but will fail randomly at different
steps ----> >> during the install. It may fail at choose keyboard or it
may make it as ----> >> far as installing base system. Most of the time
when it fails it will ----> >> report a failure on a red screen and let you
go back and repeat the step ----> >> that failed. If I keep repeating
steps it will proceed but fail again ----> >> at another random point. Occasionally it just locks up.
----> >>
----> >> I have tried linux and linux26 with npapic acpi=off
----> >> I have tried the full netinstall CD and the business card CD
install. ----> >> I have tried different cds and even cd drive.
----> >> I have even tried the floppy install.
----> >>
----> >> Now for the really strange part. If I pop in Ubuntu Breezy Badger
----> >> install cd it will complete without a single error!
----> >>
----> >> Any ideas of what to try? This is more of a challenge at the
moment and ----> >> I hate to give up.
----> >>
----> >> Thanks
----> >>
----> >> Glenn
----> >>
----> >>
----> >>
----> > Is the netinstall image you're using up to date? Maybe downloading
the ----> > latest one can be an idea.
----> >
----> > You can open another terminal and cat some files in /var/log to see
----> > what's going on.
----> >
----> > I ran debian base system on a amd k6 300 with 64megs on an asus
----> > motherboard for sometime. The only trouble was when the hdd started
to ----> > age. The netinstall always worked ok.
----> >
---->
----> Tried 3 different CDs downloaded and burnt on two different PCs. All
----> three CDs have installed no problem on other PCs. Even tried floppy
----> install. Changed CD drives.
----> Tried 2 more installs just now.
---->
----> 1. tty1 stuck at Detecting Newtwork Hardware
----> last line in messages was insmod /lib/....../isofs.ko
----> last line in syslog was init: ^MStarting PID 486, console /dev/vc/2
----> ;'/bin/sh'
---->
----> 2. Got error message ! Load Installer components from CD
----> Failed to load installer components
----> Loading os-probe failed for unknown reasons, aborting
----> exact same lines in logs as above
---->
----> Glenn
---->
Old machine? burn the CD's at a slower speed than normal so that the CD drive can read them. This has been the case with me on several old machines. The slower the burn speed the better, and they will read on just about any old CD drive.

HTH

Thanks for the suggestion but CD #3 above I burnt it a 2x, the slowest
choice I had. The cd drive in the failing AMD machine is a fairly
recent 48x drive. It also has no trouble with the Ubuntu install which
came from the same CD burner at full speed.

Thanks
Glenn

I had problems during installation of Sarge using an old (> 3yr) cd. I
swapped in a newer one and everything went O.K. The old cd worked fine
under RH 9 and Knoppix. I don't think that the problem is the media,
the driver in the install kit.
HTH.
Chuck

Tried a new cdrom drive today, borrowed from a new PC, just in case you were on to something. Same results. The odd part is I tried the Ubuntu install again and it worked fine. I think the problem must be something deeper than the cd media or drive. If I keep retrying the steps when it errors out I can get to the actual downloading debs from the net. It will still produce random errors here, the cd is not being used at this time at all AFAIK. I ran memtest on this for 24 hours and had 0 errors.



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