Re: 18/12/1999 meeting minutes.

[Zameer Ahmed <zameer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,
                        Its been a long time since I have posted to the
LUG. Unfortunately I couldn't attend the last LUG meeting, due to a meeting
I had to attend (Meetings are a disease!). Meeting spawn review meetings
Its a Resource hogger :-)


Coming to the Easylinux refusal to write to the boot  block


<Snip>

>
>         Unfortunately, both EasyLinux 1.2 and Corel Linux flattered to
> deceive, with their installations hanging at different points. While
> the EasyLinux install was admirably efficient (employing the wm2
> window manager, of all things !), its inability to write the boot
> block to disk, and stubborn refusal to yield to every attention
> bestowed, cleared the

</Snip>

I presume that the installation mode was Advanced and in this stage The
Installation Program doesn't check for the  (/) partition has been
partitioned or not! This will coolly proceed to Installing the base system.
The installation speed will be very fast (of source) as no actual writing
is done. But When it comes to LILO stage. It will simply refuse to write.
This is because there is the eLilo the LILO writing program will check for
/dest/etc/lilo.conf which is ofcourse non existant.

Hacking Easy linux Installation
---------------------
You an check this by Right clicking on the Background when the installation
is ON and then choose New. This will Open a X-Term. Using this we can ack
around the installation of Easy Linux


Thus the Solution
-----------
The only solution is to partition the Root Partition and then proceed with
the Installation (These Installations are crazy Toc! Toc!!)

However the next release will InshaAllah have the bug fixed. As this bug is
being worked out


Cheerio

Zameer Ahmed

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May the Force be with you...Open Source be with You!!
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