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Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 can't find Linux partition

Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 can't find Linux partition

Post by spectr » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



I created a 1600MB Linux partition using Partition Magic (Caldera Edition)

Trying to install Linux. Booting from CD. Lizard works ok until I get to the
screen where it asks me to check whole disk or partition or custom(for
experts only).  The partition choice is greyed-out.  I don't want to wipe my
hard drive and I am definitely not an expert.

Lizard does not detect the Linux partition.  So I abort the installation.

Windows 98SE does not detect the Linux Partition.  When I try to create a
Linux partition again, Partition Magic tells me there is already a Linux
partition.

Why can I do to help Lizard see the Linux partition?  How can I detect it
myself?

Thanks for any help.

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Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 can't find Linux partition

Post by spectr » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00


I found an answer to my own question (an unsatisfying one) in Caldera's
website FAQs.  If anyone is interested, this is it.

Description:

I have a 18G udma66 harddrive. Windows and PartitionMagic are able to see
and resize the drive but when I try to install the drive is not available in
Lizard.

Solution:

Currently udma66 controllers are not support by the kernel version, 2.2.10,
that ships with COL 2.3. Currently the work around is to run the drive as
udma33 IDE device. We are working to include support for udam66 in future
products.

I wish Linux would get out of it's infancy.

spectru

If at first you don't succeed, RTFM*
*resume the fiddling and muddling.


Quote:> I created a 1600MB Linux partition using Partition Magic (Caldera Edition)

> Trying to install Linux. Booting from CD. Lizard works ok until I get to
the
> screen where it asks me to check whole disk or partition or custom(for
> experts only).  The partition choice is greyed-out.  I don't want to wipe
my
> hard drive and I am definitely not an expert.

> Lizard does not detect the Linux partition.  So I abort the installation.

> Windows 98SE does not detect the Linux Partition.  When I try to create a
> Linux partition again, Partition Magic tells me there is already a Linux
> partition.

> Why can I do to help Lizard see the Linux partition?  How can I detect it
> myself?

> Thanks for any help.

> --
> spectru

> If at first you don't succeed, RTFM*
> *resume the fiddling and muddling.


 
 
 
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Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 can't find Linux partition

Post by Lonni J. Friedma » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



> I found an answer to my own question (an unsatisfying one) in Caldera's
> website FAQs.  If anyone is interested, this is it.

> Description:

> I have a 18G udma66 harddrive. Windows and PartitionMagic are able to see
> and resize the drive but when I try to install the drive is not available in
> Lizard.

> Solution:

> Currently udma66 controllers are not support by the kernel version, 2.2.10,
> that ships with COL 2.3. Currently the work around is to run the drive as
> udma33 IDE device. We are working to include support for udam66 in future
> products.

> I wish Linux would get out of it's infancy.

And what are you doing to get it out of its infancy?  Are you supporting
the kernel development effort?
 
 
 
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1. Newbie: Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 won't install

I sent this to Caldera's tech support a couple days ago, no
answer yet, so I thought I'd try the Linux newsgroups.  I'm
continuing to read and learn, but am impatient for "hands-on"
with my new toy.

I couldn't install it from my CD-ROM, so I copied the entire
"Linux Kernel and installation" CD to a spare FAT16 hard drive
partition, using Windows 95 Explorer.  Note: All partitions are
below cylinder 1023.

The Lizard graphical installer won't run (locks at CD-ROM, or if
I specify "er=cautious" at startup, it doesn't lock but does fail
and has me do a hwinfo dump).

However, the Lisa text-mode-graphics installer seems OK, it goes
through the initial steps and seems to prepare my swap partition
OK.

When I tell Lisa the partition with the install CD contents, it
finds it.  (I know because I had the wrong CD copied there
originally and it failed; now it gets past that point).

But then, the text-mode dialogs switch into a weird mode -
instead of showing proper text, they show a text tag that looks
like a key into a message lookup system.  E.g. the first one
shows in the dialog title as ":CHOOSE_PARTITION_ROOT_TITLE:".

I could figure out what the dialogs meant from the tag text, so I
kept going.  It prepared the Linux partition apparently OK, asked
me which set of packages to install (I chose the full set), then
began to install.  But it quickly failed, saying:

   The following error has occurred
   /mnt/col/install/RPMS/DEV-3.4-1.i386.rpm
   File not found

This doesn't make sense.  On the FAT16 partition, the file
mentioned is definitely there, looking at it with Windows
Explorer, e.g. the file H:\col\install\RPMS\DEV-3.4-1.i386.rpm
exists.  Linux is apparently assigning /mnt to that partition to
mount it for installing, so it looks like the path is OK.

What can I do at this point to install it?

I had read about the default consoles, and tried Alt-Function
keys to see if it might tell me anything.

The Alt-F8 console shows some debug messages, one says it's doing
Do_Find_File_To_Pkg, then two Do_Lookup_Trans_Tbl statements to
try and find trans.tbl in the RPMS directory, the last of which
fails and triggers the dialog.

Back in Windows, I looked at the disk - there is no trans.tbl
file in the RPMS directory or anywhere else.

Also, the Alt-F6 console shows some other information; the last
line says "Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)".

Any ideas?

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