[haiku] Re: trouble installing R1A2

  • From: Marcos Alves <haiku@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:43:01 +0100

This has been discussed here, and there are workarounds for it published on
the internet, e.g.
http://haikuzone.net/tips/installation/work-around-general-system-error-r1a2-installation

Have fun!
Marcos.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Glenn Holmer <shadowm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm having trouble installing R1A2 on my test box, on which I
> successfully installed R1A1.  The partition is on the third drive (sdc2
> in Linux terms), and I wiped it from Linux beforehand (dd
> if=/dev/zero...), then initialized it from the installer before
> proceeding (I also tried deleting the partition and re-creating it from
> the installer).  I burnt two CDs from ISO images, one downloaded
> directly, and one via torrent, and had the same issue with each CD.
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that the installation stops at "786 of 19264"
> on file libwebcore.so with a dialog saying "An error was encountered and
> the installation was not completed: Error: General system error".
>
> How can I diagnose what has happened and correct it?
>
> --
> "The text is only a proposition." -Pierre Boulez
> Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) http://www.lyonlabs.org
>
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