Forget Hardy

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Phil Sexton wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>     Bart it seems that the Hardy installer is worried because it can't 
>>>> find a partition that has a FAT file system. This is accurate because I 
>>>> do not have one. But I could make one just to keep the installer happy 
>>>> if needed. If needed this is a huge bug against the installer!
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It's not needed on my box.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     I just did the big dance of reboot and get updates and reboot. Of 
>> course it did not work and I am convinced there is some thing wrong with 
>> the Hardy installer. I have had no problem with 7-10 and a whole passel 
>> of Fedora versions. It has only been Harty that can not be installed. If 
>> you could talk to every person who didn't get it installed it might be a 
>> large crowd.
>>     
>
> Um...Karl...it sounds like this is the *first* time you looked at the 
> logs after the installer bombed to find clues of what happened.
>
> And people are telling you it's very possible that it's a partition size 
> problem on the destination partition.
>
> So...what else did you install on this partition? Why don't you use 
> parted and resize the partition, then try the reinstall?
>
>
>   
    Hi Bart, the partitions have been GIANT when I let the Installer do 
it. Like 120 GB! When I forced it to use mine they were 8 GB and only 
Hardy is there. Here is the last load on the serial Hard Drive for your 
approval:

karl at karl-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda6 /mnt
[sudo] password for karl:
karl at karl-desktop:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              7700700   3660412   3649108  51% /
varrun                  484788        84    484704   1% /var/run
varlock                 484788         0    484788   0% /var/lock
udev                    484788       128    484660   1% /dev
devshm                  484788         0    484788   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9             19236308   7913872  10345284  44% /home
/dev/sda6              8032648   2303736   5320864  31% /mnt
karl at karl-desktop:~$

Observe /dev/sda6 is the Hardy partition It is 30% used.

karl at karl-desktop:~$ cd /mnt
karl at karl-desktop:/mnt$ ls
bin   cdrom  etc   initrd      lib         media  opt   root  srv  tmp  var
boot  dev    home  initrd.img  lost+found  mnt    proc  sbin  sys  usr  
vmlinuz
karl at karl-desktop:/mnt$

Observe the Hardy load. It looks just great! but when you look at /boot/:
karl at karl-desktop:/mnt$ cd boot
karl at karl-desktop:/mnt/boot$ ls
abi-2.6.24-16-generic             memtest86+.bin
config-2.6.24-16-generic          System.map-2.6.24-16-generic
initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic.bak  vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic
karl at karl-desktop:/mnt/boot$

There is no grub.

Karl



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