Topic: Install problem

[Johann]

Hi,

I downloaded e-smith-4.1.1.iso, burned a CD and booted off this CD.  After typing "accept", I can see Linux booting, but then the screen turns blue and I get "couldn't find kickstart file /tmp/ks.cfg" after which the install exits abnormally.

On pressing Alt-F3 I see:

...
* trying to mount device hdb
* loopfd is 5
* LOOP_SET_FD failed: Bad file descriptor
* kickstart failed to find CD device

This is on an AMD 75 MHz with only a 1GB HD & IDE CD.  The same thing happened on my home PII-233.

I hope its not a problem on the image I downloaded (took a few days to get it here

Hope someone can shed some light.

Thanks

[Darrell May]

You can always use rsync to quickly check/update your iso image.  I've got a HowTo for rsync here:

http://netsourced.com/e-smith/howto-rsync.html

As for your error, as a guess why not try putting your CD-ROM as master on the secondary ide channel (hdc) although since you mention this has happened on two separate computers, you probably do need to check your iso image, reburn a CDR and try again.

Regards,

Darrell

[Johann]

Darrell,

> You can always use rsync to quickly check/update your iso image.  I've got a
> HowTo for rsync here:

Thanks.  Will give it a go.

> As for your error, as a guess why not try putting your CD-ROM as master on
> the secondary ide channel (hdc) although since you mention this has happened
> on two separate computers, you probably do need to check your iso image,
> reburn a CDR and try again.

I tried using CDROM as hdc, but get the same error.  Now my hope is on rsync

Thanks again

Johann

[Johann]

Hi,

I tried rsync thusly:

# rsync -avv --progress --stats rsync://ftp.e-smith.org/e-smith/e-smith/e-smith-4.1.1/iso/e-smith-4.1.1.iso .
receiving file list ... done
e-smith-4.1.1.iso
351387648 (99%)

Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 351399936 bytes
Total transferred file size: 351399936 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 351399936 bytes
File list size: 52
Total bytes written: 128820
Total bytes read: 85916

wrote 128820 bytes  read 85916 bytes  554.16 bytes/sec
total size is 351399936  speedup is 1636.43


However, this image is no different from the original (using NT's FC /B as well as diff on Linux).

[Johann]

Hi,

I burnt a CD with the image resulting from the rsync (as described in previous post) and viola.  It works.

No idea why, while the images seem to be identical, the one works & the other not.

Anyway. Thanks for the help.

[dave]

so i presume this means having downloaded the iso image for e-smith 4.1.1 (using good old win98) that i am wasting my time and should have used a linux box to rsync the file?

not that i'm being a pessimist it's just only going to take me 18 hours to download it u c

thanks,

dave

[Charlie Brady]

dave wrote:
 
> so i presume this means having downloaded the iso image for
> e-smith 4.1.1 (using good old win98) that i am wasting my
> time and should have used a linux box to rsync the file?
>
> not that i'm being a pessimist it's just only going to
> take me 18 hours to download it u c

If your image is correct, there is no need to rsync, or if you rsync, it will only quickly verify that your image is already correct. Use md5sum to verify that your image is correct.

If your image is not correct, but almost correct, then rsync will relatively quickly correct the image. So if your image is not correct, copy it to Linux then use rsync to "syncrhonise" it.

Note that many users have reported problems with CDRs burnt by Nero.

Charlie

[Gordon Rowell]

dave wrote:
>
> so i presume this means having downloaded the iso image for
> e-smith 4.1.1 (using good old win98) that i am wasting my
> time and should have used a linux box to rsync the file?
>
> not that i'm being a pessimist it's just only going to
> take me 18 hours to download it u c

You might like to try out the tools referenced below:

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/DOSWindowsApps/README

We haven't collected them yet, and would be interested in
feedback from people who try them.

Gordon