Current ISO images status

[Jay Estabrook]

Hi, Steven,

I've a Radeon 7500 (RV200) in my XP1000, and not seen that problem.
I'm checking again now...

BTW, on that previous problem that ended in a python error in
urlgrabber: I saw something apparently identical on an ES45 I was
installing to. I think it might be an instance of failure to
read an RPM off the CD, and an attempt to grab it off the net, and
not having the network set up; ie multiple repos set up by default,
with CD chosen first, then onto the net if failure on CD.

Might be worth a try to clean that CD and try again with it.

Back to the XP1000: just did "b dqa0 -fl 2" from the 20081024 CD,
and it made it to the "Welcome to alphadora!" screen. I'm assuming
that yours crapped out before it got there... ??? Just in case, I
took it as far as the partitioning screen, and then stopped there,
so I wouldn't overwrite an existing install.

What kind of Radeon do you have in there? I'd hope it wouldn't
matter when doing a textmode install, but you never know. Is it
in one of the top 3 PCI slots? Bottom 2 slots are another PCI bus,
and current Xservers on Alpha do NOT like it there, though again,
why should textmode care?

Sorry, I'm just baffled by that behavior - XP1000 is one of the
first test platforms I try new spins on...

--Jay++

Steven Moix wrote:
> Hi Jay
> 
> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 10:17 -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
>> However, there's a single CD (20081024 in the "iso/obsolete/"
>> directory on BUILDSYS) that might avoid an issue with changing
>> CDs, if that's what is causing the problem (wild guess only).
>> That CD has pretty much the same basic stuff, just many fewer
>> "development" RPMS, which you can, of course, later retrieve
>> off the double-CDs via YUM.
>>
>> Sorry I can't help more; I hope to try the 2-CDs on my XP1000
>> later, see if I run into the same issue.
>>
>> --Jay++
> 
> I tried the 20081024 ISO, but it's even worse, anaconda doesn't start at
> all. I tried to boot with the "-flags 2" parameter as well to start a
> text installation, but I get an error:
> 
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 864, in <module>
> xserver = rhpxl.xserver.XServer()
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'XServer'
> 
> Do you think that it's due to the Radeon this time?
> 
> Steven
> 
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