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Installation goes on forever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SIM Niger Systems Support)
Wed Nov 11 05:01:15 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:43:04 +0100
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From: SIM Niger Systems Support <systems@sim.ne>
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I am brand new to Linux and Unix and am having some trouble with installation.
I have successfully installed Linux without any extra modules installed
just to work out the problems I was having getting through the installation.
Having installed that, I decided to redo the installation, installing all
the packages I wanted. I am installing on a Compaq DeskPro 486/33M with 8
MB RAM and a 450 MB hard drive. The installation files reside on our
intranet FTP server (NT).
During installation it reads continuously off the supplemental floppy disk.
(BTW: is there any way to have Linux copy this disk to the hard drive after
it gets going? It reads it so much it seems like it is using it as a swap
drive.) Twice now, it has started installing fine but after about an hour
and 100 MB installed, it starts reading off the floppy disk continually and
doesn't progress. Yesterday I left it for an hour to see if it would
continue but it didn't. Some information from the screen:
Package: tk-8.0-12
Size: 5144k
Summary: Tk GUI toolkit for Tcl, with shared libraries
Total 131M 1:09.47
Completed 100M 53.06
Remaining 31M 16.41
I did a surface scan on the floppy afterwards and there were no bad
sections on the disk.
Does anyone know why the installation got stuck at this point? Is there
some way I can have Linux make a copy of the supplemental disk elsewhere so
that it doesn't have to read work off the floppy the whole time?
Thank you,
Reg Sawilla
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