[parisc-linux] Re: debian install fails to find CD/DVD

[Grant Grundler]

Mike,
Please keep this conversation "on-list" - I can't provide 1:1 support.

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:15:28AM -0800, McConachie SSgt Michael J wrote:
> Grant,
>  
> Last night I reinstalled again, and used the universal cd this time.
> 
> Firstly, I have (4) 18.2 GB drives.
> 
> On the first one, (which is the only one that I configured for install right now..) I had
> 
> 32 M 	/dev/sda1  	for /boot  (in case I use other vmlinux images later..)
> 17.1 G /dev/sda2	for /
> 1.(the rest)  		swap

this looks good.

> I intentionally did this to allow maximum amount to be available for the /mnt/gentoo (/ after I chroot) partition.    
> 
> Last night for the first time, the emerge -uDv started to work after
> the initial emerge -sync.  I did this b/c it "highly recommended" an
> update, and directed me to do so to all of my config files as well.
>  I assumed that meant to do an emerge -uDv.  
> 
> It errored out saying the filesystem was full???
> I did a df-k on / and it was 100%????  How?  I don't know.
> Surely the install CD, and updates aren't 17 G worth...???*&^

If emerge is grabbing stuff from the internet, it certainly could
exceed 17GB (sources + binaries + any packages left lying about).
Full source (*src.deb) is ~150GB. That's not counting any
intermediate files left laying around in a build.
(think *.o plus *.a + *.so for libs)

> 
> Anyways, I will do the initial setup again, chroot, and then emerge
> lvm2, and try to do so.  My only concern is that lvm2 will have
> dependencies not yet installed with the initial emerge -sync.  
> 
> I also thought about setting up NAT, ssh, and making my machine accessible
> through my linksys router and giving you a call and a user login. 
> Does that sound okay to you??

Thanks but I won't be able to look at it.
Perhaps someone with interest in gentoo can help.

hth,
grant

> I'm sure I have just overlooked something miniscule.
> 
> Mike