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

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

Give me a bit to try and figure this out here, then i will get another ISO
up today.
I will make sure to get the fuse module back in also.



On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Newt <gen...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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