The Midnight Coder
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« on: June 24, 2008, 05:43:53 am » |
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I downloaded VL Light 5.9 RC1 and tried to install it but the installation always fails at 230 - 244 MB of the required system. Any idea on how to get this to install sucessfully?
MD5 of the downloaded iso matches the MD5 I got in the server.
Configuration:
swap: 512 MB
main: 4 GB
Filesystem: ext3
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kc1di
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« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2008, 08:13:57 am » |
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how old is your computer?
a couple things you can try.
when you boot fromt he disc hit F1 then at the prompt type IDE try that kernal if you have a IDE machine.
it may be a problem that SATA is too new for your hardware.
try that first if it doen't work let us know will try some other things.
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Dave
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The Midnight Coder
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2008, 06:41:17 am » |
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That did not work
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bigpaws
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2008, 08:44:21 am » |
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More information my help in solving your problem.
Like the MB, Processor, RAM, type of HDD and name.
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nightflier
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2008, 10:45:54 am » |
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Try downloading Light Beta 5 and give it a try.
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The Midnight Coder
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2008, 06:32:15 am » |
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128 MB
P3 (Coppermine)
10 GB HD
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lagagnon
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2008, 07:35:15 am » |
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I am assuming when you burned the ISO to CD that you checked the md5sum?
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The Midnight Coder
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« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2008, 09:30:02 am » |
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Yes I did. It matched the given md5
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lagagnon
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« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2008, 01:28:20 pm » |
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Put the VL CD back in, get to the first install screen and choose "Exit to Root Console". At the root console type:
fdisk -l
and post the data here on this thread. Also, I have found in the past that OS installs which tend to halt are usually due to the following - in the order shown below:
1) faulty CD burn
2) incorrectly partitioned hard drive, insufficient hard drive space or faulty hard drive
3) faulty CDROM drive
4) bad RAM stick
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The Midnight Coder
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« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2008, 08:36:24 am » |
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A whole lot of stuff comes up and it exceeds the screen. The last part was about sda1 being of another OS(its XP BTW) and that the partiotion table is not in order or something like that.
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2008, 10:40:10 am » |
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A whole lot of stuff comes up and it exceeds the screen. The last part was about sda1 being of another OS(its XP BTW) and that the partiotion table is not in order or something like that.
sounds like the H.D. needs to be re-portioned |
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The Midnight Coder
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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2008, 08:12:15 pm » |
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OK. I am getting a new HD on monday so I will try it then and tell yall how things go.
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« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2008, 02:30:53 am » |
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OK. I managed to get the output using my xubuntu system. root@fabian23-desktop:/home/fabian23# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 10.2 GB, 10204766208 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1240 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa423a423
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 609 4891761 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 610 654 361462+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1176 1240 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 655 1175 4184932+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 655 1145 3943926 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1146 1175 240943+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 4089 MB, 4089446400 bytes
61 heads, 60 sectors/track, 2182 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3660 * 512 = 1873920 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 3 2183 3989504 b W95 FAT32
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« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2008, 07:54:45 am » |
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Did you use cfdisk from the install disk?
Why are there 2 swap partitions?
My recommendation delete all partitions and
then make 2 partitions one swap 512 Megs and the
rest as /.
HTH
Bigpaws
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« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2008, 08:59:59 am » |
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I am getting a new HD tomorrow so how do yiu recommend I go about installing the following:
1) XP
2) VL
3) Xubuntu
I will have to download VL light RC2 and that may take a while as my connection is slow. So after monday the latest is thursday. So any tips will be welcomed.
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