Re: [gentoo-user] The setup program seems to have failed.

[Rumen Yotov]

On (08/11/07 05:23) Miernik wrote:
> Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel
> machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its
> a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I
> thought that on such powerful beast, Gentoo will be a good choice,
> things will compile fast enough. I am stuck with a "The setup program
> seems to have failed." error during installation, so I'll tell you
> exactly what I dit.
>
> OK, so what I did was:
> wget http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/amd64/
>
> Then, this machine doesn't have, nor will ever have any hard drives, nor
> CD/DVD/any-moving-media drives, the only things that I want to ever
> attach to it are USB flash pendrives and the Ethernet cable. So I bought
> one 1 GB USB pendrive, and two 2 GB USB pendrives to play with, and with
> the 1 GB pendrive I followed these intructions:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
> and that worked well, I have this bootable USB stick with Gentoo image
> now. After that boots and I get the Gnome desktop, I switch to text
> console, I insert one of the 2 GB pendrives into another USB slot, and
> the screen tells me to type "installer", so I do it.
>
> I choose "standard" and "Internet enabled" and then he asks me "Which
> drive would you like to partition?" and shows me /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
> to choose from, where /dev/sda is my 1 GB boot stick, and /dev/sdb is my
> empty 2 GB stick. So I choose /dev/sdb, and then the program quits
> printing as its last words this not-very-useful message:
>
> "The setup program seems to have failed."
>
> So I am stuck here, what to do?
>
> P.S. This machine has 2 GB RAM, and I plan to buy another 2 GB or 4 GB
> more, and then install Gentoo in such a way that the USB pendrive would
> only be needed during bootup, i.e. that a compressed ramfs image would
> be on the stick, and once it extracts into initramfs or something like
> that, it could be removed, and whole system will run from RAM, ramfs,
> XiP (execute in place) - that's what I want to do. But right now I can't
> even do a basic install, so some help would be great.
>
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> Miernik
> http://miernik.name/
>
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Hi,

The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-)
Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal.
i've been following (svn) the quickstart script, meant to do a console install.
Don't have a link but if anyone is interested will get it (IIRC it's in
graphical-installed dev personal place).
Would be interested on any experience about it's usability.
HTH. Rumen
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