Oh, this was a problem in the 1.3 propack. You must have a Pentium 1 or
lower. See, if the installer detects anything less than a PPro, it tries
to use the 586 versions of the kernel rpms. Since we don't have any
machines that are older than Pentium Pro's, we did not test this. We add
in a smp-bigmem kernel which we install if you have > 1G memory. But,
even if you don't have this much memory, the installer tries to unslect it
and we don't have a 586 or 386 version of the smp-bigmem kernel.
The reason we had a smp-bigmem kernel in the first place is because
originally, we had Kanoj's bigmem implementation which allowed you to
access more of the memory for more general purpose tasks, but caused a ~5%
performance hit. In 1.3, we switched to using the community acepted
version of bigmem, but kept the 1.1 & 1.2 packaging convention. Since the
community bigmem implementation is not as heavy weight (~1% performance
hit -- also less general purpose, but alas), we have decided to turn it on
by default in the smp kernels (not in the up ones). So, this particular
install bug was fixed de facto in 1.4.
Sorry for the trouble.
The workaround is to copy the iso image to a writable directory and delete
the kernel-smp-bigmem package from SGI/base/comps.
Thanks for your help.
-tduffy
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Jari Perttunen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is any use for you but I tried to
> install Linux ProPack 1.3 on my Dell Laptop using INSTALL installer.
> Attached in the file ProPackError.txt are the error
> messages produced by the INSTALL installer.
>
> Hardware: Dell Latitude XPi CD
> Operating System: RedHat Linux 6.2 (KDE desktop)
>
> Commands used:
>
> (Download ProPack1.3.iso from SGI download area)
> root# mount -t iso9660 -o loop ProPack1.3.iso propack
> root# cd propack
> propack# ./INSTALL
>
> I can select the Language but the installation then
> fails right after that.
>
> Yours,
>
>
> ==============================
> Jari Perttunen
> Metla
> email: jari.perttunen@xxxxxxxx
> tel: +358-9-85705362
> fax: +358-9-85705361
> ==============================
>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Thomas Duffy wrote:
>
> > There are some clashes and this is natural. For instance, we replace
> > /etc/securetty so that it can handle the new devfs names for the
> virtual
> > consoles. But this file is owned by a package in RedHat. In our
> > installer, (if you run INSTALL), it will handle the clashes for you.
> >
> > The ProPAck is meant to install on top of any system. It has a
> superset
> > of hardware support in RedHAT. That being said, we have not tested
> every
> > piece of hardware. For instance, the Buslogic SCSI driver has been
> > reported to be broken in 1.3 (BTW, this is fixed in 1.4 as of the
> ALPHA).
> >
> > THe 1.3 website is out of date and should be updated. We are no
> longer in
> > BETA for 1.3 and we released 1.3 over a month ago. In fact, we are in
> the
> > midst of working on releasing 1.4. I should really update the website
> if
> > I can get a chance.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback and I encourage you to keep up the testing.
> We
> > can use as much help as we can get.
> >
> > later,
> >
> > -tduffy
> >
>
>
>
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