Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
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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