Bug 191449

Summary:	graphical installer in 2007.0 fails under VMware, other 2.6 kernel x86
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Maurice Volaski <mvolaski>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Maurice Volaski 2007-09-05 22:43:58 UTC

My environment is VMware, selected for other 2.6 kernel 32-bit and I am using
the 2007.0 full LiveCD for x86. I don't know whether VMware is related to the cause. It just happens to be environment I'm in and it's hard to believe that if the installer was generally failing, it would not have been noticed by now.

Anyway, I'm doing an advanced install where I created three partitions, /dev/sda1 ext3 for boot /dev/sda2 for swap and /dev/sda3 ext3 for root. I chose the CD for the stage and the installer copied the files to the root, which I could see in df filling up. But just after it is done, it reports installation failed. It claims there is supposed to an install log in /tmp, but there is not, not exactly, anyway. There is a compile_output.log.failed file, which seems to be saying 

Switching native-compiler to i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 .../bin/rm: cannot remove `//usr/bin/gcc': Read-only file system

This is followed by many complaints of a read-only file system.

It actually seems to be trying to act on the CD itself which doesn't make sense. It's as if it is not switching to /mnt/gentoo.

I just also reported http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191440 but I don't think that is related because it quit much  earlier on and there is no log saved.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-05 22:57:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 191443 ***