David Hare wrote:
On 15/01/11 01:50, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Like I was saying, it was an easy install, on booting that's when things got bad, the installer had not made user jimmy, there was only a choice for root or user, I logged in as root and found user jimmy was in fact not made so I made user jimmy using kuser only to get errors while trying to login, also the installer did not setup my network card, I checked /etc/network and the config file looked good but running 'ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" I would get no network found. Then I decided to go take a nap. :-)
What could I have done to have a more successful install?
Thanks for testing Jimmy. I found a typo in the installer script and one file to remove in /etc. Consequently it fails to make the new user. It's all because of the move from live-initramfs to live-boot.
Will upload a fixed ISO later.
All 4 of my computers are 64 bit, can you compile a 64bit system?
How about using ext4? I've been using it for over a year and it sure cuts down on file system checks and seems to be a big plus over ext3.
In the meantime, here is a quick fix (do this in the live session before running the installer):
In a konsole (one line at a time):
sudo su sed -i 's/1002/1000/'g /usr/bin/remastersys-installer rm -f /etc/live.conf
Will this fix the system I have already have installed? Yep, and it's fixed, I'm now logged in as Jimmy with a working system. Thanks.
You could copy this text to a pen drive to quickly transfer it to a live session. I tested the fix on a new install and it worked.
The installer uses grub-gfxboot (grug-legacy) not grub2. It would be better first-off to install grub to partition and chainload it from your current main OS. You can "upgrade" to grub2 post-install if wanted.
I've been removing grub2 from my Debian installs and installing grub-legacy and then running update-grub.
Re: network configs: sudo ceni
That worked, thanks.