Re: [Net install of potato, problems with lynx.]
YES! that's right. i had the same problem with lynx installing from a slink
minimal installation. but i just tryed linkx, a nive text browser... if you
want try it, cuz is fast and supports background downloads. Esc key will give
you a menu.
zaikxtox
Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Guess I'm a tester.....
>
> I tried to install Potato via the internet.
>
> Downloaded all floppies and installed base, configured
> networking, and ran dselect (after modifying
> /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list)
>
> Almost every went well...except lynx.
>
> .. dpkg error processing lynx
> subproc post - install script returned error exit
> status 30
>
> I purged lynx and tried apt-get
>
> ....lynx failed to configure, with exit code 30
>
> I also saw a message that /usr was busy ??? (no disk
> is NOT full, df shows /user 16%, / 11%
>
> OTHER NOTES:
> Beside's lynx the following was observed.
>
> 1: no way to specify DHCP for IP address during
> network setup portion of install (I can do this all
> the time with redhat).
>
> 2: I wanted to put lilo on the MBR of /dev/hda but the
> root filesystem is on /dev/hdc1. The install script
> won't do this by default, I suppose I could have
> shelled out and re-ran lilo. Instead I booted using
> the rescue disk and mounted the root partition, then
> edited lilo.config and reran lilo. I got a warning
> that this configuration might not work due to the bios
> (but the bios sees all 4 drives, even though it won't
> boot any but C:). Anyway changing to /dev/hda for the
> boot block and keeping the root at /dev/hdc1 works
> fine.
>
> 3. somehow I managed to misstype my root password
> TWICE!! resulting in not being able to log in as root!
> Yuck. Had to boot using the rescue disk, mount the
> root partition, and edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> Muprhy's Law!!!!
>
>
> Tomorrow I'll try configuring X. Probably have
> something else to report.
>
>
>
> =====
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>
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>
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