Re: Problems with Installation/After INstallation.
Dave Germiquet wrote:
> I forgot to mention that telnet works and so does the internet.
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> > Here are a few questions.
> >
> > First of all I am trying to install linux on a MAC LC 475, HD 250, Ram 32
> > MBS, vram 512. The macintosh parition is 30 mbs, the swap is 40, and the
> > linux is 180. I am aware of that this machine does not have a floating
> > point unit and may have a processor that the emulation does not work.
> >
> > I am encouraged to try this because we are planning to give these
> > comptuers away to people who cannot afford computers and it says it is
> > doable on the machine status web page.
> >
[snip: woody install experience]
> >
> > I then tried potato, everything went ok until the initial boot , it booted
> > but didnt run the dpkg-reconfigure base-config. I figured this out after
> > looking at the intitab and saw what it was running. The first screen
> > frooze, with it saying respawning too fast waiting five minuts. I hit
> > alt-f2
> > to switch screens
> > and it gave me alogin prompt i tried logging in and using the
> > dpkg-configure base-config and it said BUS error, then everytime after
> > that segmentation fault. I have many LC 475'2 and so far the two i tried
> > said the same thing. How do I know if my LC 475 has the floating point
> > bug or if this is the reason why it is crashing. Any hints or tips are
> > welcome.
If you get INIT 1: respawning to fast: waiting for 5 minutes after the
first phase of installation, when starting the second that's a sure
indication of a buggy CPU. It indeed dpkg-configure crashing.
Options:
1) Put in a full 68040 (ebay, easy to get) or a non-buggy 68LC040 (hard
to get).
2) move inittab.new to inittab and start installing package and their
dependencies by hand (with dpkg -i) until you have a somewhat working
system. I'd start with apt and dselect and their deps, so they can
figure out the rest. Expect this to give you troubles cause the buggy
CPU will be giving you segfaults all over.
HTH, Erik
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