amenditman Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I was thinking of deleting those partitions and repartitioning to see if they are somehow the problem.I would prefer to remove the entire partition table and repartition the entire drive, but you might not want to since you already have some stuff set up.Maybe a good time to put Clonezilla to work for you, then GParted to wipe the entire drive back to factory new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 *sigh* I just set that entire drive up from scratch just a week or so ago. It has 0 bad sectors. I've run diagnostics on it. It's functioning fine. Just to check and see, though, I'm going to install CentOS on the next set of partitions today sometime to see if it works there. We'll see... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 Tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Nice animation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well, sad to say... the installfest is rained out. I tried to install Foresight on the next available slots and it froze up in the same spot during boot up. I then tried to install Sabayon... anywhere. Couldn't even get their Live CD to run properly. vtel57_getting-nowhere:~$ mv sabayon_cd centos_dvd foresight_dvd /dev/null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 CentOS, Foresight, and now Sabayon will not install.I'm starting to think my first inclination was right.Something terribly wrong with the partition table or the device itself.One last thing I would try before totally hosing that drive and starting from scratch. Can you install any of these trouble distros to any other computer using the media you are currently. Not likely, but maybe your burner has gone cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 I don't have any space on any of my other systems at the moment. I think I might try to install Slackware (from my known good DVD) onto this drive in question and see what happens. Not tonight, though. I'm off to bed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 OK, a little update...I was getting cabin fever sitting in the house today, so I came out to the shop to tinker a bit. I added a 120Gig drive to ericsshop02 to play with some tester Linux installs. I cfdisk'd the drive and created 4 tester slots on it.I tried installing Debian first. No joy. Not only did the install take over an hour, but the system would not boot to X or a command line. It just froze and sat there looking stupid. This is my second download, second burn, 3rd time installing on two completely different machines with the same results. I give up. I'll wait till Debian 7.0 comes out a couple years from now.I then tried installing Foresight. No joy there either. It will boot to the command line, but no X. When I startx, it locks up. This is also the second download, second burn, third installation on two totally different machines. Same issues every time. I'm going to have to give up on Foresight for a while, too.There ya' have it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Did you get to GRUB on these installs? If so, try adding nomodeset to the kernel line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 No. On my installs the first two times I used GRUB. For these installs I was booting with LILO. GRUB or LILO on totally different systems -- same issues. Enough gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair. I'm done with these two distributions for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Enough gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair. I'm done with these two distributions for a while.The computer Gods are trying to tell you something. Go to the light Marry Anne.......Oh sorry, wrong message.......Ahh here we go. Leave those distros alone Eric, they will only cause you misery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 I just downloaded Aptosid, Salix, and Frugalware to play with. That should keep me busy for a bit. I'm even thinking about installing Frugalware with the new Gnome3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamicota Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 EricMOI see a "Gnome" there - so how about this one eh???--->>>http://www.linuxgator.org/gnome/forum/view...521a3234cf3fa38Tried the livecd on the Dual AMD and looks interesting and ABOUT to install it after first populating XP first.Cheers for YearsColin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 PCLinuxOS? Nah... been there; done that. Besides, I like the Phoenix Edition of PCLOS the best. http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=213 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Come on Eric.....Don't be scared.........You know you want too.........LFS Could be the start of NSOS v1.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 LFS is actually on my agenda for some day. I don't have the time (well, I do... but don't wanna') for it at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 If I had the time (IE not married and living by myself) I would definitely want to give that a try. That is definitely got to be a good way to learn Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamicota Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 AWwwwwwww Eric MOI CRUSHED Phoenix never did perform for me - can't remember which computers - although amd considering a distro with K3b in it tooCheers for YearsColin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 @ Colin... been a while since I ran PCLOS. I might install it and Mandriva again some day soon. Ya' just never know...@ Ian... I'm sure there are some benefits to that wedded bliss stuff. I've never tried it myself. I'm more of the type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamicota Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Well here's your CHANCE again--->>>http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,90842.0.htmlGoing to download it and try it live first even before the install on the dualCheers for YearsColin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamicota Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Surprise Surprise Surprise Eric2011.05 PCLinuxOS RC1 livecd ACTUALLY loaded on my problem Intel + nVidia 8400GS stand alone cardNow am confused as which to try on the Dual :oops: do NOT want to Shanghai the post with an sidelineCheers for YearsColin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 Well, problems for me right off the bat...Salix had a corrupted burn, I think. It started to install and then complained about corrupted files on the CD. :(Frugalware installed OK, but I can't get X running. Gonna' have to install Nvidia drivers, I think, to get this one going. The above two were installed outside on my ericsshop02 system.I'm going to install Aptosid on my inside ericsbane05 main system because it will require regular updating (rolling release), and I may not always get out to the workshop regularly to do that on that system out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 The Installfest moves into late May...Aptosid - install went fine. Cannot boot. Issues with fstab, disk identifications, UUID, etc. Will get back to it... some day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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