Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] First beta rollout of SOHO 6.0 (testing) B1.4

[Newt <gen...@gm...>]

Hello,

I thought I'd try the latest B1.4 but have run into the same problems that do not
allow me to continue the installation. The problems that I run into are:

1) The gbr2 installer that starts automatically cannot find the install source. It
hangs/stalls indefinitely and I have to actually kill the process to get it to
quit.

2) Running the installer from the IDE cannot find my ISOs which sit at the root of
an ntfs partition. The good part is that the installer never hangs/stalls, but I
cannot actually continue the installation.

I decided I would try mounting my ntfs partition to make sure the ISOs are sitting
at the root of it, and determined that the installer environment (initrd?) cannot
mount ntfs partitions. I get an error message describing missing modules and that
I should try 'modprobe fuse' first. So then I tried 'modprobe fuse' and received
a similar error message about missing modules. The best I can guess is that my
problems with the IDE installer not finding the installation ISOs (#2) is due to
this ntfs-mounting problem. Did something change between B1.2 and B1.3 regarding
ntfs/modules/fuse/etc?

However, the other issue (#1) is a different beast. I cannot determine why the
gbr2 installer would just hang but the IDE installer would run fine, and don't
have enough knowledge to "see" what's going on when the grb2 installer hang. It
actually hangs before the status message starts cycling through any of my devices.

All in all, I would guess that my problems are pretty specific to me (i.e.
iso-install located on root of ntfs partition) and that 99% of other folks won't
run into the same problems so it may not be worth the effort to make this work for
me.

My next attempt will be to actually burn the discs and see how that goes. I'll be
sure to let you all know.

Cheers, newt