Re: Alpha install failures

Interessting. Try SymlinkProgram Installer Maybe that works. Alternativly
start Installer in a shell (Wich wont install grub but everything else) sC
Am 30.01.2014 16:48 schrieb "Eihiko O" <[email protected]>:

> Thanks Jonas, that worked!
>
> I got a different error, which I fixed with: *ln -s
> /Programs/Installer/Current/Shared/Installer /System/Links/Shared/Installer*
> This got me to the installer. I went through the installer and clicked
> "Done," which led to a wall of errors. Failed to run command 'rm': No such
> file or directory, failed to run command 'find', failed to run 'ldconfig',
> etc... all for the same reason.
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Jonas Neumann <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi.
>> Running installer:
>> chmod +x /P/Installer/C/bin/Installer
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Eihiko O <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Heya,
>>>
>>> I've been reading through the archives and trying to fix my install
>>> issues with the alpha, but they seem new so I'll share. I've attempted
>>> installation on three platforms.
>>>
>>> 1) On a Dell XPS 15, via bootable USB: I think my problem here is
>>> probably the fact that I'm trying to create a live USB. I used the alpha
>>> ISO and syslinux to make a bootable USB and got it semi-working. The logo
>>> displays and I select "Install Gobolinux," which gets me to a CLI version
>>> of Gobo. I then get an error that the "CD-ROM" cannot be mounted. I did an
>>> fdisk -l which told me that the only drive showing up is my harddrive
>>> (sda), which gobo tried to mount and obviously failed. My USB does not show
>>> up at all in fdisk. Is this because the early boot stages of Gobo do not
>>> have USB support?
>>>
>>> 2) In Virtualbox (on the Dell XPS 15): I boot the ISO as a virtual
>>> CD-ROM via Virtualbox, get to the install logo, and press enter to install.
>>> Some initialization output runs across the screen, then the kernal panics
>>> (wow. much fun. so panic.) For simplicity, I use all of virtualbox' default
>>> settings.
>>>
>>> 3) In Virtualbox (on a MacBook Air): Same as above, but instead of the
>>> kernel having a meltdown, the initialization actually completes. I get a
>>> message telling me to either "startx" or "installer." I try "startx" and
>>> get a working kde desktop, except that the background wallpaper is
>>> completely black and there is no "Install GoboLinux" icon. I reboot and
>>> this time try "installer" but get a message telling me the command is
>>> unknown. I try various capitalizations and conjugations of the word but
>>> none work. I navigate to Desktop via CLI and find that the "Install
>>> GoboLinux" link is in the directory (not sure why it didn't show up in
>>> KDE). I run "./Install\ GoboLinux" but get a permission denied. I had seen
>>> in the archives a fix where you change su's name from gobo to root. I tried
>>> this by going to /S/S/passwd as instructed in the email, but the directory
>>> did not exist. I navigated to the Installer's bin directory in Programs and
>>> tried to execute it manually but got an error. I should mention that
>>> newlines were not displaying properly through all of this so output of
>>> things like "ls" was all wonky. Between that and the fact that MacBook Airs
>>> have no pageup or pagedown keys, I wasn't able to actually read the error.
>>> But I'm pretty sure it was an error.
>>>
>>> The adventure begins c:
>>> -Eihiko
>>>
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