Argh! How long does this take?

[ChePazzo]

Ok, I have tried:
Gentoo 2006.1
Gentoo 2006.0
download.sagetv.com/linuxweb/installprofile.xml
download.sage.tv/linuxbeta/installprofile.xml

I tried setting the swap to format and to not.

I have tried every combination of the above.

I get no errors on install

In every case, the install stops at 'Beginning Kernel Compile'
I gave up last night and went to bed. When I came down in the morning, it was at the exact same spot....

I have a P4, 1024MB RAM, 2.4GHz, 40GB HDD

Am I doing something wrong?
I assumed that it shouldn't take 5+ hours, but could it?

any ideas?

-Mike

[ChePazzo]

Ok. I finally got it to install after using 2006.0 and formatting all 3 partitions and it only took about an hour! So something was definitely wrong last night.

It went through the entire setup and I coughed up the money to get the license so I could continue the setup and when I rebooted, I got a "Fatal IO Error 104" right at the end of the boot when it tried to launch X!

So, I am a little annoyed that I had to pay for the product before I could even verify that it would install correctly, but I am mostly just tired at how much time I've spent trying to get this . . . well, installed. I haven't even gotten to a point where it may or may not run.

what can I do?

I redid the sagesetup.sh and reentered the 500-digit key (really, if the key is required for install, then I should be able to purchase it from the install - that avoids having to run back and forth between PCs with a pen and paper) and through the entire process again and ended up with the same fatal error.

any ideas at all?

-Mike

[Kevintimm]

memtest. just a thought but there might be something wrong with your ram. even if its brand new. google memtest86 and run a scan all the way through atleast the first pass. - my install took about 4 hours. running PIII 1Ghz.

Use Gentoo 2006.0 I heard people were having trouble with Gentoo 2006.1
and use only one install profile - you prolly were, but just incase you weren't
download.sagetv.com/linuxbeta/installprofile.xml - Beta 6
download.sagetv.com/linuxweb/installprofile.xml - Version 5

[ChePazzo]

I can run the memtest from the web browser after booting with the Gentoo live CD, right?

I'm going to try one more time tonight with a fresh install of 2006.0 and v5.

Also, any idea what kind of text editor I can use with the install? After installing the sage and having the X crap out, I was still able to log in as root, but I couldn't find vi, vim, edit or anything to edit text files. Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by Kevintimm

memtest. just a thought but there might be something wrong with your ram. even if its brand new. google memtest86 and run a scan all the way through atleast the first pass. - my install took about 4 hours. running PIII 1Ghz.

Use Gentoo 2006.0 I heard people were having trouble with Gentoo 2006.1
and use only one install profile - you prolly were, but just incase you weren't
download.sagetv.com/linuxbeta/installprofile.xml - Beta 6
download.sagetv.com/linuxweb/installprofile.xml - Version 5

[Ryand833]

You could try emacs, or maybe nano

If neither of those work, if you have net access, you could try emerge vim

I don't know, I haven't tried the linux version with success and have hardly any knowledge of gentoo.

[ChePazzo]

yeah, nano was the one that was installed. I am still having the same problem. I'm going to have to contact the sage support for this.

In the meantime, I need to clear out my bad 250GB drive onto my new 400GB drive in a Linux box, so I am installing Ubuntu and at the very least, I will continue to run the server on the XP box, but store the video lib on the smb share.

Once I get that going, I'll try to install the Sage server onto the ubuntu box and skip the Gentoo stuff altogether.

got my fingers crossed . . . .

Oh, the Ubuntu liveCD had memtest86, so I ran that without issues.