From: Dave Robbins <drobbins@drobbins.net>
> hmm,
> you mean you re-installed from scratch and reformated the disk and
> still had this problem??
Yes, I did a new install from a cold boot of the boxed RH 8.0 CD
> what did you do, let diskdruid format it for you?
Yes, I let druid do the format, but it was an existing partition from
where Psyche had been running.
>> since you have a totally hosed system, format it with a dos disk so
>> linux will see it as a totally alien filesystem and realize
>> everything has to go away.alternatively you can use linux/fdisk to
go >> in and blow away the current partitions.
Well, not totally hosed, as I have the bloatwareXP on the system. I was
so happy with Psyche, that I was close to losing it, and hadn't booted
into XP since October or so when Psyche hit the streets, (and I used 7.2
before that - heck in some fashion, I've used RH since v. 3.x) but now
somewhat glad I still had XP to be able to get online and check mail,
and orders, and get some amount of help, which didn't solve the problem,
but without a functioning partition, I'd have been really hosed.
I've also spent a couple days/nights rebuilding 7.3 to function, but I
want 8.0 and Phoebe when it's released. I like cutting edge stuff, just
not bleeding edge ;-)
>> Sounds like you need to make the installer realize that "hey, we're
>> starting from scratch". Is it possible your using the workstation
>> install option and maybe it see's the correct partitions already
>> there so it doesn't format?
No, I used the "install everything" option; servers and all of the parts
and pieces, which is what I'd used before as well, plus had updated it
all religiously with RHN and apt-get/synaptic
*How can I "make the installer realize that "hey, we're starting from
scratch"".* without a fdisk of the entire system, just hda3-5?
Ken
>> Dave
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:22, ig9f05jg0102@sneakemail.com wrote:
>> I had been running Psyche very successfully with a RedHat boxed set
>> since it was released. I attempted to upgrade my nv drivers to
>> nvidia drivers and ended up fscking the entire system. After three
>> days of trying to fix it, with some amount of help, I gave up and
>> tried to format and install freshly.
>>
>> This resulted in no joy ;-(
>>
>> It would act perfectly normal up until the part where it says
>> Installing
>> packages, with glibc-common-2.2.93-5 (the first file) and hangs ...
>> forever
>> Total 0
>> Completed 0
>> Remaining 0
>>
>> I then did a mediacheck on all three disks, and all three returned
>> PASS.
>>
>> The irony is that I was able to install Valhalla 7.3 and it installed
>> and runs great, but after being used to Psyche, it isn't what I
>> want.
>>
>> I have tried to upgrade Valhalla to Psyche and it goes through all of
>> the steps as usual, but gets to that same point and hangs, too.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what the problem is, or how to get Psyche
>> to come to the party?
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