[H-GEN] newbie install woes [HyperScan 1.7]

[R. Shafran]

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Robert,

Robert Kearey wrote:

> Huh? If it hangs at boot, how do you get there?
> 
Ctrl+C when it hangs just after "Finding module dependencies [OK]" gets 
things moving again. Booting continues ok up to login prompt & I'm able 
to login successfully as first user created during install.

> Did you play about with selecting individual packages, or just use a 
> default install (workstation, server, laptop, etc)?
> 
I added to desktop install by selecting MySQL support & web server & 
maybe one other (I want to learn PHP & MySQL). And I selected Gnome but 
not KDE. During install it successfully booted into XWindows where I 
poked around a bit & added a 2nd user. My problems appeared when 
rebooting the next day.

>> * error opening /etc/securetty when trying to login as root
> 
> 
> Hrm. That's just broken.
> 
> You didn't do the try-and-install-multiple-times-over-a-breaking-install 
> trick did you? A default install simply will not have these problems, 
> full stop.
> 
No. I was going to until I found the Ctrl+C trick on the net. If I had 
reinstalled I would've deleted existing Linux partitions before 
re-partitioning, which should get around the multiple installs makes a 
mess mistake, right?

> What video card does this laptop have? Details, please.
> 
Not a laptop. Asus A7V133C motherboard; 512mb ram; AMD Athlon 1.0Ghz; 
Sound Blaster audio AC97; Asus nVidia GeForce256 32mb AGP video; Symbios 
875/NCR 53C875/876 PCI UW SCSI xtrlr with sda=9Gb UW SCSI, sdb=4.3Gb 
UltraSCSI, sdc=4.3Gb UltraSCSI, Sony CDRX140E ATAPI CDRW on primary IDE 
connector jumpered Master. Windoze98 on sda, FreeBSD 5.0 bad install on 
sdb, Red Hat 9.0/2.4.20-8 on sdc with Grub bootloader on sda MBR.

Ron Shafran


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