Re: Installation woes

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello Michel,

Re: Your e-mail (25/01/2003)

> On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 00:10, Kulwant Bhogal wrote: 
>> 
>> If I try to use the menu command for "Base System Installtion" and
>> choose 
>> 1. network as the source, it gets as far as extracting the various files 
>> (after validating) and the progress bar gets all the way to the right
>> with  the last file being extracted being
>> /target/var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_powerpc.deb...
>> 
>> and then I get an error message: 
>>     debootsrap exited with an error (return value 1)
>>     <continue>

> Have you tried booting into the base system after this?

Yes, it starts to boot up but I get a kernel panic when it tries to set the
system clock from the hardware clock. I can boot into a bash shell on the
installation partition though. I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel (because
somebody suggested trying a newer kernel) and renamed
vmlinuz to linux.bin (because I read in one of the archived mails that
vmlinux is the linux.bin file) and that would not boot either - it kernel panics
almost straight away. I am not sure if I need to get a new root.bin file
from somewhere to go with it.

Krystian suggested installing ksymoops, but as you can see from my other
post, this was not successful either. I have been going through the archived
mails to this ML and I saw somewhere that I could remove the commands from
the boot scripts to stop it trying to set the system clock, but I have not
figured out how to do this yet.  

Any help will be much appreciated.

Kind regards, 

Kulwant