Re: initial setup for newbies

John Hughes escreveu:

> The problem is not screwing up hardware, it's being forced to restart 
> from scratch.  If you do your playing in a virtual environment you can 
> do stuff like:
> 
> 1. install debian sarge on a vm
> 2. on the host: cp --sparse=always vm-disk vm-disk-backup
> 3. mess up an install of OpenSSI
> 4. on the host: cp --sparse=always vm-disk-backup vm-disk
> 5. goto 3

You are right. I had to install Debian several times trying to make 
version 1.9.6 work at least in the init node.

I'm not proficient in QEMU. Could you point any good tutorial about it?

I tried several times to install 1.9.6 on Sarge, but I just can't 
install the kernel-image-2.6.11-ssi-686-smp. The error I received is:

Setting up kernel-image-2.6.11-ssi-686-smp (1.9.6.-5) ...
ldd: /cluster/lib/cfstab: No such file or directory
Failed to create initrd image.

Then some more errors regarding dependencies of packages related to openssi.

I tried to locate cfstab in the packages available by using apt-file, 
without results. I'm supposing such file or directory will be created 
dynamically.

I followed the setup manual (which has an error regarding the path of 
OpenSSI deb repositories (should end with a openssi-v1.9.6 instead of 
v2) and didn't installed any additional packages restrict of what 
openssi required. Just

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install openssi

and nothing else. Configuration of apt was executed exactly was it is 
int the manual (except the URL of DEB repository).

I used two DVD images as package repositories and skipped the security 
updates from Debian during initial setup (getting those updates corrupts 
the install).

My doubt is: what I missing here?

Some points:
1 - My hardware is a AMD Sempron LE-1150, so I don't have multiple cores 
or processors in it.
2 - I executed the default install with Debian Sarge, which means the 
setup was executed with kernel 2.4.27-3-386

I event tried latter to install the Debian SMP kernel, but got the same 
error.

Should I install Debian with kernel 2.6 and try again?

Thank you,
Alceu


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