[Leaplist] Install Troubles ... still

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 12 January 2007 23:30, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> Bruce Metcalf wrote:
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> Steve asked what happened when I boot to boot level 1 (single user). I
> can't get that far. As for what's in /etc/fstab, I can say with
> confidence there's *nothing* there. This HD hasn't yet been formatted
> for Linux, and still has Windoze in an NTFS partition.

Oh, I should have read more carefully. You don't mean it won't *run* your 
distro, you mean it won't *install* your distro from CD.

Most distros have several different CD installs -- hi rez, low rez, text. Try 
text or low rez. Also, most installs let you look at what's really going on 
behind the fancy installer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 or Ctrl+Alt+F3 or 
Ctrl+Alt+F4.

Last of all, just for the heck of it, try loading the CD image on another box, 
loopback mount it, NFS export it, and try an NFS install. That will get rid 
of the possibility of it being a problem with the CD drive, or some wierd 
timeout condition.

Very last of all, I wonder what would happen if you fdisked and mkfs'ed it 
with Knoppix, and then ran your favorite distro's installer.

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/