Problems installing pld 1.0

[Philip J. Hollenback]

Hello,

I downloaded the PLD 1.0 CD image from your site and am attempting to
install it.

The CD boots fine, I see the usual boot messages, but then the screen
switches to 'press enter to unlock this console'. Pressing enter does
nothing.

This is on a system with a Tyan motherboard and via apollo vp ide
controller.

P.

[Lukas Dobrek]

Post by Philip J. Hollenback
Hello,
I downloaded the PLD 1.0 CD image from your site and am attempting to
install it.
The CD boots fine, I see the usual boot messages, but then the screen
switches to 'press enter to unlock this console'. Pressing enter does
nothing.
This is on a system with a Tyan motherboard and via apollo vp ide
controller.

First of all you have to know that we have no real installer.
Pressin enter should give you the console. Then this what you have to do
is to prepare the disk using fdisk;mke2fs;swapon and so on. I assume you
know how to do it. Then you have to mount your new ROOT into /dest make
there directorys which you need and then mount the rest of your filesystems
then if I remember well there are four important scripts addpkg, selmod,
addbase, doit.
addpkg I dont realy remember for what it is. It can give you the suport for
pcmcia, nfs, reiser, wget und stuff.
selmod gives you the posibility to load module with support for something
into the kernel like scis, eth0 so on.
addbase adds the basic stuff neded for instalation.
and doit start the instalation of packages. Im hope it is in english if
not I promise to translate it soon.

Good luck and feel free to ask more. Finaly we will have some users
not only developers :)))


Take care, and let the force be with you.
The Lord of the darknes
Lukasz Dobrek
--
?ukasz Dobrek
Institut f?r Theoretische Physik
Appelstra?e 2, 30167 Hannover, Germany
e-mail:***@itp.uni-hannover.de
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[Philip J. Hollenback]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice, but the problem is that at the 'Press <enter>'
prompt, pressing enter (or any other key) does nothing - the system
appears hung.

P.

Post by Lukas Dobrek

Post by Philip J. Hollenback
Hello,
I downloaded the PLD 1.0 CD image from your site and am attempting to
install it.
The CD boots fine, I see the usual boot messages, but then the screen
switches to 'press enter to unlock this console'. Pressing enter does
nothing.
This is on a system with a Tyan motherboard and via apollo vp ide
controller.

First of all you have to know that we have no real installer.
Pressin enter should give you the console. Then this what you have to do
is to prepare the disk using fdisk;mke2fs;swapon and so on. I assume you
know how to do it. Then you have to mount your new ROOT into /dest make
there directorys which you need and then mount the rest of your filesystems
then if I remember well there are four important scripts addpkg, selmod,
addbase, doit.
addpkg I dont realy remember for what it is. It can give you the suport for
pcmcia, nfs, reiser, wget und stuff.
selmod gives you the posibility to load module with support for something
into the kernel like scis, eth0 so on.
addbase adds the basic stuff neded for instalation.
and doit start the instalation of packages. Im hope it is in english if
not I promise to translate it soon.
Good luck and feel free to ask more. Finaly we will have some users
not only developers :)))
Take care, and let the force be with you.
The Lord of the darknes
Lukasz Dobrek

[Sebastian Zagrodzki]

Post by Philip J. Hollenback
The CD boots fine, I see the usual boot messages, but then the screen
switches to 'press enter to unlock this console'. Pressing enter does
nothing.

oh yes, it does :)
It brings you the shell prompt. This is usually enough to install PLD ;))
First of all, create all neccessary partitions:
fdisk /dev/hdX
Then, initialize swap partition and mount it:
mkswap /dev/hdXX; swapon /dev/hdXX
Mount all your partitions into /dest and subdirectiories:
mke2fs /dev/hdXX; mount /dev/hdXX /dest
mke2fs /dev/hdXY; mkdir /dest/home; mount /dev/hdXY /dest/home
When everything is mounted, run addbase:
addbase
This will create temporary directory structures in /dest/tmp. It'll
generate /dest/etc/fstab too - for future use :))
Mount your CD:
mount /dev/hdXX /src
Then run selrpm <listname> - I recommend selecting base, and after
installation adding the rest of necessary pakages - you'll avoid
installing tons of junk packages...
selrpm will ask you some questions. Short translation[1]:

"Instalacja z katalogu/serwera FTP" == "Install from disk / FTP server"
"Wybierz program: prowizorka/wuch" == "Select installation application"
(choose "prowizorka")
"Czy chcesz zainstalowac pakiet..." == "Do you want to install..."
"Wybierz jeden z pakietow" == "Select one of the following packages"
"Czy chcesz instalowac dokumentacje" == "Do you want to install
documentation files" - man pages, info pages, /usr/share/doc/* and like
this.
"Czy przeedytowac liste pakietow" == "Do you want to modify generated
package list"
"Czy uruchomic program "doit"?" == "Run "doit" now?"

[1] Which reminds me I should translate it all into english :>

after finishing selrpm, chroot to /dest directory:
chroot /dest bash
set password for root:
passwd
update /boot/initrd (just in case :> )
geninitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.2.18-14.gz 2.2.18-14
(or whatever kernel version you have)
create /etc/lilo.conf or edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (depending of your
choice of lilo or grub during selrpm)
vi /etc/lilo.conf
update lilo
lilo
and voila. That's it :)) You may reboot now...

[Roman Werpachowski]

Post by Philip J. Hollenback
Hi,
Thanks for the advice, but the problem is that at the 'Press <enter>'
prompt, pressing enter (or any other key) does nothing - the system
appears hung.
P.

Pressing Enter enters you into the shell. Maybe that's the reason?

Roman Werpachowski