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Hi,

last morning i had a chat with a guy who wanted to install ROCK too.
He had nearly the same problems.
I'm no expert and so i couldn't help him. I asked him "are you disappeared
now?"
He said "no this is a beta version and its okay."

Rock 2.0 is not ready. Its still in development.

And you cannot expect a disribution like mandrake from the "god" Rock
developers. This would be the end of ROCK. :)

Grüssle

Christian



> hi,
>
> i downloaded several images and tried to install them on my laptop. it is a
> pure old pII/266mx with 96mB ram and nice sympatic disc of 2gB (halfe of it
> for ?nix). nothing proprietary is in this box. i already installed suse6,
> redhat, rock1.[4-6] and so on. only w95 sucks on it eventhough a big
> sticker says "designed for windose...". ok back to my weekend work - proper
> reporting of the installation processes. i have got a whole set of images a
> rock beta6 desktop and minimal, and the new camp image and the new <rock
> installation guide>. ups.. here is gentoo and a mandrake fooling around as
> well.
>
> all images were checked after download. only cd2/desktop/beta6 had a
> different checksum - never mind - the image is clean and that's important.
>
> ok - let us start with the minimal beta6:
>
> after booting it shows the nice boot screen and goes thru the loader
> process. the 1st stage boot end with the question <what do you want do do
> [1-7]?>. i decide for <5> as it is my fortune number and then the 1 for cd.
> the next problem i dont need to waste time for thinking. there is a
> <default>, my favored decision - a real YES installation. and the minimal
> rock died with <Using /dev/cdroms/cdrom0:>.
>
> never mind there are is some other cds fooling around on my desk. i give
> the computer a 5 minute break just for making sure he is forgetting the
> recent adventure.
>
> i feed him the desktop beta6 and give him full power again. same startup
> screen and continues after a short time - just fine for writing the
> protocoll - great. 1st stage is loaded as well. as it worked fine last time
> i don't change my mind - 5 again and 1 for cd and the default.
> <Using /dev/cdroms...>
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-rock/kernel/fs/minix/minix.o ... failed
> insmod: ...nls_iso8859-1.o ...failed
> insmod: ...nls_iso8859-1.o ...failed
> Extracting 2nd stage filesystem to ram ...
>
> gzip: stdin: I/O error
> tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Can't find /mnt_root/linuxrc!
>
> power off and to the next coffee break.
>
> so - to the camp version i downloaded last night. thank god - you found the
> vanished images. same procedure.
> <Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel>
> i remember same error as in beta5 version of desktop.
> no problem i contact the mentioned installation guide in order to get the
> necessary information. And there is <>.
> i'll have a try with <linux init=initrd.img>. wwwaaaaaau
> it goes to
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno =2
> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 03:02, block 64,
> size 1024
> read_super_block: ....
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> power off and to a nice beer - that will help - makes me brave and less
> nervous. if it does help to me i'll have the next ones with my laptop.
>
> next is the mandrake 9.1. it boot nicely. o god, that installation is time
> consuming. if it will continue with this speed - i'll run out of ..?.. the
> installation procedure might unnecessarily slow, but it is working - and
> after a hours time the linux version is installed.
>
> some questions - what do you think ?
> - how many of the poeple is downloading your images and goes the described
> way. get a bad image of rock and --- tell all world about the bad
> experience with rock?
> - what is the cause of i was not able to install the rock images (i
> downloaded mandrake as i did with rock, same way, same hw) ?
> - how much brave do i need to get rock installed? (8 coffee, 4 beers, 2
> château, 1 jonny)
>
> what motivation could make me try to install a rock-linux over a running
> installation? i can live with all at&d and bsd systems.
> what would you do?
>
> sorry for my english - obviously not my native language :-))
>
> have fun
> george


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