[3174] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Linux-Athena installer problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Nov 1 20:11:53 2000
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, alex_c@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Nov 2000 20:11:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Thomas H. Grayson"'s message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:16:43 -0500"
Message-ID: <sjmvgu7p48f.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Ok, that is certainly the new bootdisk (which is why most of the
information you needed was pre-filled in). If you got to X starting,
then it is definitely a stage-two problem. That would be alex's
code. Alex, can you help?
-derek
"Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I made the floppy using the script /mit/linux/rh-6.2/linux-install-floppy
> and told it that I did not need PCMCIA support.
>
> Tom
>
> > From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> > Date: 01 Nov 2000 18:48:50 -0500
> > Subject: Re: Linux-Athena installer problems
> >
> > "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU> writes:
> >
> > > I've run into what appears to be an insurmountable problem with the
> > > network SIPB Linux-Athena installer. I get as far as the SIPB-Red Hat
> > > screen in X, then it hangs. After hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1, I can see these
> > > error messages:
> >
> > > Exception in thread Thread-2:
> > [snip]
> >
> > This is certainly a python installer error. Alex?
> >
> > > If you can help me out, I'd appreciate it. I created the boot floppy
> > > today; it is apparently revised from those I've used previously (more
> > > defaults are filled in).
> >
> > Which boot floppy did you make (and where did you get the image?)
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom Grayson
> >
> > -derek
> > --
> > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
> > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL N1NWH
> > warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL N1NWH
warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available
