On 2007/12/18 22:50 (GMT-0800) Tod Merley apparently typed: > On Dec 18, 2007 7:11 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I've tried more things. I burned the live KDE CD, and the 815 boots from it. >> However, I'm not really sure how it can help. I tried chroot to the installed >> partition with it, and tried to install MC, but rpm gave errors about corrupt >> DB, and rpm --rebuilddb failed too. > Why do you use a chrooted environment to do an install? I don't. Chroot is used to attempt to repair or diagnose a faulty installation. > I have never > yet done an FTP or HTTP install so I really do not understand what you > are doing. Trying to get F8 to work on a system that has 12 other operating systems on it that all work just fine, including F7. > Does the KDE Live CD have an install program on it's Desktop? What > happens if you use that? It crashed shortly after telling it to proceed. The details I've forgotten already, but the logs are here: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anacdump-gx150-f8-live1.txt http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-gx150-f8-live1.txt Just as well, since that process requires formatting /, screwing up my preformatting with appropriate blocksize the installer doesn't permit me to choose. Since that disaster, I've cloned the F7 installation to the F8 target. I first tried apt-get dist-upgrade, which downloaded 772 packages, installed 7 of them, then segfaulted, leaving the rpm db corrupted. Cleaning that mess up took a while. Dist upgrade using yum did the same thing after processing about 30 packages. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
