Re: Install never finishes

Hi,
I just followed the instructions on
http://intimate.handhelds.org/docs/install-howto/. I downloaded the
initrd from the 2nd page (I modified it as they describe it on page 4 to
get my network card supported). Then, instead of following page 3 I just
unpacked the intimate20011113.tar.bz2 to the ext3 partition (found it
with google). On my 3630 with 1gb CF this worked, including X and so on.
On 256mb CF it doesn't work, although it looks like there is still
enough free space. But on 256mb CF I could install it manually (follow
page 3, same initrd). But after this I had to install a windowmanager
and other packages with apt... that is why I modified the initrd first
in order to have network. Good luck ...
Jan

Harmon Seaver wrote:
> I've just done the intimate install for the upteenth time. I used to
> have a functioning install, but lost it after a crash. Now, everytime
> I try to install on my 3600, I get an install that is clearly
> incomplete. No working X, no virtual keyboard or xterm, no blackbox,
> no xset or xrdb or xstroke. Not sure what else is missing, but
> probably quite a bit. I can log in thru the serial console, and find a
> lot of files in /var/cache/apt/archives that were downloaded but not
> installed, but not the above.
> And this is using an older initrd that I had around (the opening
> install screen says v0.06) as the newer one from the "news" area of
> the intimate website doesn't seem to work at all, that just boots to a
> screen with no keyboard, so you can't even type "intimate-install".
> Does anyone know the secret of getting a good install or have an
> initrd that does it?
>
Received on Mon Feb 28 2005 - 07:25:15 EST