Re: how do I interrupt an install?
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:46:14AM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing on my new AMD Athlon computer. I'm on
> dialup. The new computer accesses the net via ethernet to my 486 which
> has a modem.
>
> Boot is via USB stick with the businesscard netinst.iso, Etch Beta 3
> AMD64.
>
> The ppp connection drops occasionally and I sometimes need the phone.
> When I got up this morning, the ppp link had dropped at 0130 but was
> back up but the install was just sitting there. It hadn't
> re-established the connection and continue the download ('installing the
> base system'). I had to shutdown and start over; it even had to
> reformat the partions (LVM on raid1 on 2 disks).
>
> How do I interrupt the installer and get it to continue where it left
> off?
I am not sure, having never had that problem, but perhaps you can go to
console 2, look at the list of processes in ps and see if one sounds
like it is the one doing the downloading. If you kill it perhaps the
menu on console 1 will see the failure and ask if you want to try again.
Hopefully it would keep the packages it has already downloaded. If it
doesn't, perhaps you should setup an http proxy on the 486 that you can
point the installer at so that even if you do have to start over,
everything downloaded before should be cached in the proxy already.
Just make sure the proxy is configured to cache large files too
(including files up to probably 10M or so, not sure how big any of the
files used by the installer are).
--
Len Sorensen
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