[haiku] Re: trouble installing R1A2
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:50:48 +0200
On 2010-05-18 at 22:27:02 [+0200], Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephan Assmus wrote:
> > On 2010-05-18 at 04:26:19 [+0200], Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> I have installed Alpha2 on four computers from a Live CD, and had no
> >> problem installing it on two of the computers; whereas the installation
> >> on the other two computers failed on file libwebcore.so. Also, running
> >> Haiku from the Live CD caused similar results when trying to run
> >> WebPositive. That is, WebPositive loaded and ran okay on the two
> >> computers where the installation succeeded, and failed to load on the
> >> other two computers. Thus, I think the CD is okay, but there might be a
> >> problem with the code that reads files from the CD when using certain
> >> hardware.
> >
> > What differences are between those four computers? For example, how much
> > RAM
> > does each one have, and is the ATA driver or the SATA driver used? You can
> > tell from the device path in DriveSetup.
> >
> The two computers where the install succeeded are:
>
> IBM ThinkPad T22, 900 Mhz Pentium II, 128 MB RAM. Devices app states
> that "Mass storage controller" is: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
On this computer the CD cache is disabled. IIRC, 128 MB RAM is considered too
little.
> GigaByte 7VT600-RZ motherboard, 2 GHz AMD Sempron, 1 GB RAM. Devices
> app states that "Mass storage controller" is: VIA
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC bus. Actual chip is VT8235.
On this computer the CD cache is enabled, and 1 GB should be plenty for it to
actually work, too.
> The two computers where the install failed are:
>
> IBM ThinkPad A22p, 1 GHz Pentium III, 256 MB RAM. Devices app states
> that "Mass storage controller" is: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
>
> 6BX/VIA/ZX81 motherboard, 866 MHz Pentium III, 256 MB RAM. Devices app
> states that "Mass storage controller" is: VIA
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC bus. Actual chip is VT82C596B.
On these two, I think the CD cache gets enabled, but 256 may turn out to be
not enough for it to work correctly? Ingo?
> For all four computers, DriveSetup indicates that the ATA driver was
> used for the hard disk, and the ATAPI driver for the CD/DVD drive.
>
> >> If I boot from the Live CD on one of the computers where the
> >> installation failed and try to copy libwebcore.so to a USB flash drive,
> >> the copy fails after about 19 MB are copied. The error message is
> >> "Error copying file libwebcore.so; General system error".
> >>
> On both computers where the install failed, the copy of libwebcore.so
> was always 19,922,944 (0x1300000) bytes in length; it always failed at
> the same location in the file.
Listing the contents of the .zip I still have of r488, it should be 20993020
bytes. Is that what it shows on the computers that work?
> >> I did check the checksum of the Alpha2 zip file that I downloaded, but I
> >> have not checksummed the CD.
> >
> > Can you checksum it on the computer that fails?
> >
> How do you checksum a CD?
I guess with dd and pipes, or by reading from the raw device. (md5sum
/dev/disk/...). But I think the problem is something else anyway.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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