Bug#276517: Installer Problem with Sarge
Package: Installer
Version: Sarge
I tried installing Sarge over a dozen times. It automatically partitions
my hard drive with the wrong geometry. The fist time, I didn't actually
notice the problem. This is an older Gateway Solo 2500 laptop, P1, 233
MHz, 256 RAM, 6 GB HD, 800x600 screen. The exact size of the hard drive
is just under 6.2 GB. I'm also a newbie to anything UNIX.
The first time that Installed it, Sarge seemed to install fine using the
2.4.27-speakup kernel, but I kept getting errors until I got frustrated.
I finally removed it and started to put Fedora back on this laptop.
I've been exploring various versions of UNIX type systems and distros.
Fedora had been on before. When Fedora went to install, it reported that
my hard drive was not partitioned correctly according to the information
in my BIOS. I had run into a problem with this drive before with the
FreeBSD partition program and solved it by using System Commander to
partition it ahead of time. I tried the same thing here with Sarge. No
good, for whatever reason, Sarge reported it as an error and wouldn't
install. The Sarge installer says that my hard drive is actually a 6.4
GB hard drive.
I tried installing with the 2.4.27-speakup kernel, then switched to the
2.6 kernel several times. It loaded all of the modules for the 2.6 -386
kernel, yet it installed the 686 kernel every time this option was used,
which resulted in a loading loop where it simply kept re-starting after
Grub.
I tried every option that I could see over the course of several days
before giving up. By using the default values with the 2.4.27-speakup
kernel, the system will install. But afterwards, when installing the
software packages, I will begin getting lots of errors about software
not being installed.
I can install using the Expert mode, then choose the 2.6-386 kernel and
it will install with the same problems. It does not matter which kernel
that I try to install, I can't seem to get around that partition
program. It appears to me that it is needed to setup the directories.
But it keeps wanting to add extra space to what is actually available.
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Lloyd Hayes
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