All going very wrong!

[fingers99]

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!

[fingers99]

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.