* Emanuele Rocca <emarocca@libero.it> [2003-09-01 00:34]: | >> Please try to partition the disk by hand on the second console (to | >> make sure fdisk can use the disk). | I'll try it asap. | But the partitioner complains about the lack of libslang.so.1; entering | in a console and just symlinking to libslang.so.1-UTF8 solves the | problem. | | The error message is precisely: | | cfdisk: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1: | cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory | di-utils-partitioner's postinst exited with status 256 | | > When tring on intel machines, the disk were already partitioned, while | > when we had a try at vmware we got a crash at this very point. The | > vmware crashed and the host computer did the same -- even if the vwmare | > wasn't run by root :-( | Yes, trying the installer with vmware crashes not only the virtual | machine but also the whole system, but only using physically the cdrom. | (accessing directly to /dev/cdrom). | | Using an iso image of the cd mounted as a cdrom in vmware makes possible | to go on with the installer without hanging the machine. hmm. maybe I should include a fall-back method, if cfdisk and friends couldn't be executed successfully. Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?)
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