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Some hardware issue requires me to boot the subject CD with either the |
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"nodetect" or "nohotplug" parameters. Without one of these, the boot |
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process hangs when detecting pnp hardware. I suspect that the cause may |
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be one of the two Digium PCI cards that I have in the machine, but not sure. |
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So I'm booting the LiveCD at the grub prompt with this command: |
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gentoo-nofb nohotplug |
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Happily, in spite of this, my NIC is being detected and the correct |
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(tulip) module is being loaded for it automatically. |
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However, the curses-based GLI is failing on me constantly at the stage |
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where I manually configure the NIC. |
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I've tried this many times, and every time, the installer program fails |
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with the words: |
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"The setup program seems to have failed" |
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That's all I get. |
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I've also tried setting up the network manually by editing |
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/etc/conf.d/net and starting up the network, then starting sshd, then |
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remotely logging into the box and running the installer that way. That |
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method gets me past the network config part of the GLI, but I've found |
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that the installer crashes at various other points also: when I try to |
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save the XML profile and a few other points that I've just learned to |
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try and avoid as I walk through the installer steps. |
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But I'm at the point now where I've run the installer 15 or 20 times and |
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every time it ends the same way, with the error message above. |
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Sometimes it ends this way at the network config step, other times it |
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ends this way at other steps, but it always crashes. Plus, I can't find |
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anywhere in the script that it allows me to set mountpoints for the |
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partitions that I've created. |
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Is anyone else seeing this and can anyone recommend a work-around? I'd |
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be happy to share my dmesg output or any other details if someone thinks |
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it would help improve the installer program. |
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Since the 2006.0 handbook assumes that I'm installing with the GLI, it |
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seems that my only other option for installing is with the minimal CD |
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and the general installation handbook. If anyone has other ideas on how |
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to install from one of the 2006 series of CDs, I'd very much appreciate |
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learning of them. |
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TIA for any suggestions. |
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-Kevin |
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