New installation trouble...

[Brian Kelsay]

An install I tried last week of the same version gave a similar error msg.
It had trouble formatting a partition greater than 4 or 4.5 GB.   I lowered
a couple of partition sizes and got past that error problem but stopped the
install when pkgs were being loaded.   I didn't have time to wait on it and
wanted to take the machine to the Tues. meeting.

Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: Chad LaFarge <chad at clafarge.com>
To: KCLUG <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:24 PM
Subject: kclug - New installation trouble...

> I'm trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.02 on a stripped-down box (you may
> recall my excitement over my wife's new PC... this is her old PC).
>
> I've removed the soundcard, swapped its old DVD for my CDROM (bios
wouldn't
> allow boot from DVD), removed the old MoDem... all boards not needed have
> been removed in order to simplify the installation.  I formatted the old
Fat
> drive, and partitioned 20M /boot, 64M/Linux-Swap and about 7.8G/(root).
> After I select the packages to install, it acts as if it is just about to
> install them, then it craps out.  I can see errors re: Locale.  Here's
what
> I can make out (3 repeats that I can see, then abnormal end):
>
> ***** BEGIN UNWANTED ERROR CRAP *****
>
> Perl: warning: Falling back to standard locale ("C")
> Perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> Perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>     language = "en_us:en",
>     lc_all = "en"
>     lang = "en"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> Perl: warning: Falling back to standard locale ("C")
> Perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> Perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>     language = "en_us:en",
>     lc_all = "en"
>     lang = "en"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> Perl: warning: Falling back to standard locale ("C")
> Perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> Perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>     language = "en_us:en",
>     lc_all = "en"
>     lang = "en"
> are supported and installed on your system.
>
> install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> sending termination (blah..... etc)
>
> ***** END UNWANTED ERROR CRAP *****
>
> Anyone experience this before?
>
> I'm going to try Corel, and hope to hear from some of you for the
> Linux-Mandrake, later on.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Chad LaFarge
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