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

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

OK
1.5 is up now and it fixes it here for me, can you try it and see how it
goes there?

Thanks,
Uel

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:32 PM, uel archuletta <ue...@gm...> wrote:

> 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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