Hello
After a lot of fooling around with this one year old hardware amilopro
I do not come to an end with getting a homogenous computer landscape, as
all other systems at locoware.de have sarge, (with gnome, firefox,
evolution except for the firewall) and a very low maintenance load.
I would like to keep it that way.
But this notebook does not like the old kernels of sarge. Installation
is somewhat possible.
I tried original sarge installation, It did not work because of kernel
now with a DVD of sarge stable , sata_via cannot be loaded and this is
needed for HDD. It did something other bad with an old cdrom from the
times, when sarge was testing.
some more info : floppy, via_sata (error) and generic ide support stalls
the installation on this sarge stable DVD
I tried then knoppix(4.01), which charged 240000 files on my HDD and is
just a huge collection of lots of sources, started nicely as the DVD
came with the notebook
and recommendation by knoppix is anyhow to not install on a HDD.
Then I tried grml with the known compatibility problems of xservers.
So I tried `grml-tips sarge`.
What is a general problem with CDROM Live systems : reply:
1. locatedb older than 8 days,
very helpful, but I knew that before, I want to know if this-> or that->
file is there.
going along the manual of grml-tips sarge installation was very
helpful,
also sda1 was found and a filesystem made with mkfs.ext3.
there is an output of mkfs.ext3 :
Dateisystem wird geprüft alle .., je nachdem ...,
veränderbar mit tune2fs -c oder -t
must be
veränderbar mit tune2fs -c oder -i
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lots of downloads going on, install is fine.
but after the chroot TROUBLE
vi : unkown terminal type screen.linux
so lets use some other editors:
pico, nano, nvi what there is in the same directory, all the same reply:
unkown terminal type screen.linux
As I did the chroot in a second console, I could continue to do
the editing work in the first console with longer directory strings.
in the chroot : no tab completion, but for a few commands okay,
and no paths are found.
apt-get, mount works and that is needed.
horrible flashing of the whole screen when pressing cursor direction
keys and backspace in position one after the prompt.
perl continued to complain LANGUAGE unset, lots of messages
also i have given lang=de at the grml boot and
the keyboard understands german.
LC_TYPE, LC_MESSAGES and LC_ALL are all de_DE , fine.
mkinitrd.conf was not there, apt-get initrd-tools fixed it.
I continued through the script, and probably made a mistake :
installed kernel-image-2.6.8-2 from sarge
edited lilo but did not edit the kernel line as vmlinu? in chroot:
did /sbin/lilo
added linux*
looked okay.
Surprise at the reboot
kernel 2.6.17-grml shows up.
a sarge like font, a grml like kernel.
Actually this is what I wanted to have,
but not in this completely uncontrolled manner.
the kernel still sits somewhere on the HDD, not over written and I ask
myself
Did lilo content itself when finding this kernel ???????
(this happened actually twice.)
BACK TO THE ROOTS !
1. I need a working system as reference : grml2hd -untouched !
2. I need a sarge stable business environment with adaptions to actual
hardware : sarge + 2.6.17-grml + Xserver XFree86 VESA or VESAFB
3. maybe I install a testing environment for grml 0.9.
erased all partitions :
made 1 swap (sda1), one for grml 0.8 (sda2), one for sarge(sda3)
just in time info that grml 0.9 is coming,
erased sda3, and made sda3 and sda4 (all primary partitions)
sda3 for grml 0.9
sda4 for sarge
mkfs.ext3 does not read sda4 as primary partition!!!
ls does not show it either , so I make a "Erweitere" partition and
eliminate sda4, sda3.
this is the typescript of the session:
Script wurde gestartet: Mi 29 Nov 2006 18:47:12 CET
root@amilopro #fdisk /dev/sda
Die Anzahl der Zylinder für diese Platte ist auf 4864 gesetzt.
Daran ist nichts verkehrt, aber das ist größer als 1024 und kann
in bestimmten Konfigurationen Probleme hervorrufen mit:
1) Software, die zum Bootzeitpunkt läuft (z. B. ältere LILO-Versionen)
2) Boot- und Partitionierungssoftware anderer Betriebssysteme
(z. B. DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Befehl (m für Hilfe): p
Platte /dev/sda: 40.0 GByte, 40007761920 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 4864 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 62 497983+ 82 Linux Swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda2 63 671 4891792+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 672 4864 33680272+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sda5 672 1280 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1281 4864 28788448+ 83 Linux
Befehl (m für Hilfe): d
Partitionsnummer (1-6): 6
Befehl (m für Hilfe): d
Partitionsnummer (1-5): 5
Befehl (m für Hilfe): n
Befehl Aktion
l Logische Partition (5 oder größer)
p Primäre Partition (1-4)
l
Erster Zylinder (672-4864, Vorgabe: 672):
Benutze den Standardwert 672
Letzter Zylinder oder +Größe, +GrößeK oder +GrößeM (672-4864, Vorgabe:
4864): +5000M
Befehl (m für Hilfe): n
Befehl Aktion
l Logische Partition (5 oder größer)
p Primäre Partition (1-4)
l
Erster Zylinder (1281-4864, Vorgabe: 1281):
Benutze den Standardwert 1281
Letzter Zylinder oder +Größe, +GrößeK oder +GrößeM (1281-4864, Vorgabe:
4864):
Benutze den Standardwert 4864
Befehl (m für Hilfe): w
Die Partitionstabelle wurde verändert!
Rufe ioctl() um Partitionstabelle neu einzulesen.
WARNUNG: Neueinlesen der Partitionstabelle führte zu Fehler 16: Das
Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt.
Der Kernel benutzt noch die alte Tabelle.
Die neue Tabelle wird beim nächsten Neustart verwendet.
Synchronisiere Platten.
root@amilopro # init 0
Script beendet: Mi 29 Nov 2006 18:48:24 CET
ls /dev/sd* does not show
/dev/sda4, /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6 !
I cannot mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda5/ dev/sda6 !
no devices.
/dev/sda4 cannot be found not as p-partition, nor
/dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6 as l-partition.
This is Wednesday 19:08
Lots of backfeed
regards
--
Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de>
MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH
