Re: how do I interrupt an install?

[dtutty@porchlight.ca]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:23:01AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:46:14AM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
> > 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).
> 
Thanks Len.  If I don't get a better answer, I'll try killing the
process.  I can't setup a proxy on the 486 because the drive is too
small; I'm really shoehorned in here.

If nothing else works, I'll try building a bigger USB stick image and
put a larger iso file (the full net-inst).  I'd have to split it in two
to sneaker net it over via ZIP disk and cat it together, since the 486
doesn't do USB either.  I built the USB under a RIP linux CD that I had
lying around.

Either way, I consider this a bug and will put it in an installation
report.

Thanks,
Doug.