On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:15:49AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> I'm finally logged in on the install CD (2000-12-08 03:39:37) and have zeroed
> out the 2 2gig drives (bye bye OpenBSD, for now). That worked. One of the
> drives wasn't recognized by fdisk, but I managed to configure it via custom.
> I partitioned the first drive with swap and one / partition, and the second
> drive to be /home.
>
> These are the problems I'm running into already:
>
> 1. init reports ids 1,2,3 are respawning too fast. Apparently /dev/tty[1-4]
> cannot be opened if the console is serial.
Got it. Hopefully the new color/serial.gz selection will get rid of that
problem.
>
> In setup:
>
> 2. Character output is really messed up, but I suspect this is the fault of
> minicom, which messes up things on other stuff, too. I'm looking for a
> better term program (but not kermit, please) for the Intel box I am using
> to connect to the Sparc serial console. Something that is very transparent
> and captures 100% transparent would be preferred.
>
I would suggest C-Kermit, it's what I use here, but you say you don't want
to use that. The "cu" program in the uucp.tgz package (yeah!) can be used
to open a serial console on another machine. :)
> 4. CDROM scan does not find the CDROM in /dev/scd0. So I manually mounted
> it at /cd and proceeded with pre-mounted directory.
Odd...I've seen this once before on the U5 here, but it seemed to go away
at the next reinstall. Pushing this to the back burner for now.
> 5. Once I get through all the setup input and proceed to install, I get the
> following output. Note that some characters are garbled and I think that
> minicom and/or the serial port is at fault for that.
>
> | You cHan't run pkgtoo the rootdisk until you've mounted your Linux
> | partitions beneath /mnt. Here are some examples of this:
> |
> | If your root partition is /dev/hda1, and is using ext2fs, you would type:
> | mount /dev/hda1 /mnt -t ext2
> |
> | Then, supposing your /usr partition is /dev/hda2, you must do this:
> | mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/usr -t ext2
> |
> | Please mount your Linux partitions and then run pkgtool again.
> |
> | /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
> | /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
> | /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
> | /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
> | /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
> | #
>
> I could not mount /dev/sda1 manually, but after I formatted it manually,
> then I could mount it. Perhaps the errors trying to output to tty4 were
> causing mke2fs to fail prematurely or not being run at all.
>
> I symlinked /dev/tty[1-4] to /dev/null. This seemed to allow formatting
> to work for the first drive. However, when it went to format the 2nd
> drive, the system went crazy alternating between reading the CDROM and
> doing some burst if I/O on a HD. Killing setup didn't stop that and soon
> the whole machine froze up. BREAK dropped to PROM prompt and I rebooted.
> Possibly this wasn't actually format, but may have been getty dealing
> with my symlinks.
>
> I'll pick up on this later today. I may try to change inittab to remove
> the entries for tty[1-3] and rebuild the color.gz and ISO and see if that
> makes a difference.
I'll have the new serial.gz and color.gz ready for download soon, so you
can give those a try too (if you haven't already tested disabling agetty
on tty[1-4].
--
David Cantrell | david@slackware.com *
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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