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Thread: All going very wrong!

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    All going very wrong!

    I'm trying to install 3.6 after my HD install of 3.4 bit the dust after trying to put the latest version of Gimp on: yes folks, I got pangoed!

    So, I'm trying to put 3.6 on with a 2.6 kernel using knoppix installer (I'd have much sooner used knx-hdinstaller, but it simply isn't there anymore).

    I've 3 HDs. hdd is simply an old SuSE install which I have lying about in case I need to grab stuff off it. hda has multi-media stuff on it, but no OS. It's ext3, although sometimes Linux disagrees. hdc1 has/had everything except my /home partition on it. /home is hdc3.

    So, naturally, I want to install 3.6 onto hdc1.

    I figure we put Lilo onto hdc1 and boot from that, eh?

    Before anything, I run fsck:

    fsck /dev/hdc1
    fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    /dev/hdc1: clean, 127879/1831424 files, 606396/3662812 blocks

    fsck /dev/hdc3
    fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    /dev/hdc3 has been mounted 68 times without being checked, check forced.
    Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
    Pass 2: Checking directory structure
    Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
    Pass 4: Checking reference counts
    Pass 5: Checking group summary information

    /dev/hdc3: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
    /dev/hdc3: 61602/13189120 files (3.9% non-contiguous), 21567067/26370697 blocks


    OK, on with the show!


    su

    knoppix-installer

    Choose the beginner mode, edit /root/.knoconf with vim (as su) to use grub rather than Lilo.

    Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table
    Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table

    Can't remove /usr/share/applications/./Ethereal.desktop: Read-only file system, skipping file.
    Can't remove /usr/share/applications/./EtherealAsRoot.desktop: Read-only file system, skipping file.
    Can't remove /usr/share/applications/./qtparted.desktop: Read-only file system, skipping file.
    Can't remove /usr/share/applnk/./Settings/Peripherals/kxconfig.desktop: Read-only file system, skipping file.
    /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
    Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
    /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
    Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
    Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03)(compat) and kernel driver
    Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/cloop0' -> '/dev/cloop'
    Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
    mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    Filesystem label=
    OS type: Linux
    Block size=1024 (log=0)
    Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
    184 inodes, 1440 blocks
    72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
    First data block=1
    1 block group
    8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
    184 inodes per group

    Writing inode tables: 0/1
    Could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 13: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write
    mount: you must specify the filesystem type
    Ignoring entry 'boot'
    Ignoring entry 'install'
    Ignoring entry 'map'
    Warning: COMPACT may conflict with LBA32 on some systems
    /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
    Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
    /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
    Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
    Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03)(compat) and kernel driver
    Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/cloop0' -> '/dev/cloop'
    Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
    Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different disks.
    Added Linux *
    Added Linux(2.4)-1
    Added Linux(2.6)-2
    Added Windows(sda1)
    umount: /mnt/hdinstall/floppy: not mounted
    root@ttyp1[knoppix]#

    Ideas are welcome -- now I'll reboot and see what the results are! I'm not optimistic!

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    Ah, despite all the pessimism, this time it worked just fine. Strangely, it's booting through Lilo, but what the hell. Now, all I have to do is mount /home, get rid of user knoppix, apt-get update && apt-get install all the multimedia stuff (anyone know the url for maralliat?) and bob's yer uncle.

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