Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)
These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f.
After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there
being no need for a boot partition and "... and the root partition
must be on the first disk". I have had Debian installed on this
machine before, on the second external SCSI drive (address 6), so I
think this message might be in error? I'm not sure what the 'first
disk' would mean except only sda, not sdb or sdc.
There is a "please wait" message after completing partitioning that
flips by so fast it's unreadable.
I noticed, this has probably always been a feature, that if you're
heavy handed with the enter key, it's easy to skip steps, or rather,
have them performed as default. For example, if you don't have a
CD-ROM installed, try holding down the enter key at 'Install Operating
System' and watch it loop.
When installing the kernel, choosing a location is a two step process.
First you're asked to choose the directory where the Debian archive
resides, then you're asked to select a directory containing a file
powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin. This seems redundant, why not skip
the first question and get right to the point.
The message displayed while the kernel is being installed is
"Installing the Rescue Floppy ...". this is confusing to beginners,
they start looking for a floppy disk they think it will be making.
I think it should change to "Installing the Linux Kernel ..."
The first module install seemed to be successful, but when I tried to
install ipddp it said
Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep
(No such file or directory)
and -> Installation failed.
In the module installation screen it said
Architecture-specific modutils config not found, using defaults
EXT2-fs error (devce sd(8,20)): ext2-readdir: bad entry in directory
#38609: rec_len % 4 !=0 -offset=0, inode=2880897209,
rec_len = 54986, name_len=164
depmod: /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/fat.o is not an ELF file
depmod: multiply defined
segmentation fault
I verified there was indeed no modules.dep to be found there, and
then noted the previous error messages on tty3:
installing kernel and modules from /instmnt
kernel and module install was successful
moving away /lib/modules to /lib/modules.old
making /lib/modules a link to /target/lib/modules
depmod: /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/fat.o is not an ELF file
It looked to me like a disk reading problem, so I went back to
Initialize a Partition and re-initialized the intended root partition.
This time I chose to do the bad blocks scan, and noted this error
message within the ext2fs screen (mke2fs 1.21-WIP):
badblocks: error while loading shared libraries: badblocks:
undefined symbol: ext2fs_sync_device
After this I re-tried installing the kernel, this time I got
tar: Bad tar header, skipping
There was a problem installing the Drivers from /instmnt/ppowermac/drivers.tgz
extracting Drivers ... failed with 1
/lib/modules/2.2.19/ipv6/bsd-comp.o: input/output error
depmod: local symbol ^D8 with index 60 exceeds local_symtab_size 25
I retried again, initializing without the bad blocks test. This time
the installer thought it had succeeded, but the same errors appeared on
tty3:
/lib/modules/2.2.19/ipv6/bsd-comp.o: input/output error
depmod: local symbol ^D8 with index 60 exceeds local_symtab_size 25
After this, I chose Configure Drivers and got a segmentation fault,
followed by a quick display of all the /lib/modules/2.2.19 folders,
each followed by : input/output error, and the next dialog came up
with the first item in the list labeled "block/2.2.19 .2.19"
I tried yet again after re-initializing the disk, and got YA error:
zcat: Invalid zcat magic
Then i tried moving the install files to /target/tmp, when I tried
it with that setup I got
zcat: invalid compressed data -- crc error
zcat: invalid compressed data -- length error
I figured that was enough for one night...
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