<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Martin,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Having successfully installed both Debian
4.0-r3 Etch and Fedora 7-i386 on the machine, I thought I would</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">try to go back to installing XS from
the LiveCD. I tried XS-163 and XS-160-noauto, and both failed with
the</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">"clearpart line23" problem.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hardware details are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I did a fresh install of Fedora 7-i386
and collected all of the details to help figure out this.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">uname -a</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">================</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
#1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">================</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">fdisk -l</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">================</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696
bytes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457
cylinders</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =
8225280 bytes</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Device Boot
Start End Blocks
Id System</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">/dev/sda1 *
1 13 104391
83 Linux</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">/dev/sda2
14 19330 155163802+ 8e
Linux LVM</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696
bytes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457
cylinders</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =
8225280 bytes</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Device Boot
Start End Blocks
Id System</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">/dev/sdb1 *
1 13 104391
83 Linux</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">/dev/sdb2
14 19330 155163802+ 8e
Linux LVM</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Disk /dev/dm-1: 106 MB, 106896384 bytes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12 cylinders</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =
8225280 bytes</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Disk /dev/dm-2: 158.8 GB, 158887733760
bytes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19317
cylinders</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =
8225280 bytes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">===================</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
(Note: I chose the default setting, having it delete all partitions and
build new. It formatted /dev/sdb second</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">drive, even though I did not check the
RAID box, and I have confirmed that it is not in RAID mode)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mount -l</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">==============</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on
/ type ext3 (rw)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">proc on /proc type proc (rw)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">/dev/mapper/pdc_bbbhp1 on /boot type
ext3 (rw) [/boot]</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type
binfmt_misc (rw)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type
rpc_pipefs (rw)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">==============</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/boot/grub/grub.conf (menu.lst links
to this)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">==============</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># grub.conf generated by anaconda</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># Note that you do not have to rerun
grub after making changes to this file</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># NOTICE: You have a /boot partition.
This means that</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># all
kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># root
(hd0,0)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># kernel
/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># initrd
/initrd-version.img</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#boot=/dev/mapper/pdc_bbbh</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">default=0</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">timeout=5</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">hiddenmenu</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> root
(hd0,0)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> kernel
/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> initrd
/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">=============</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">anaconda-ks.cfg (generated by
the install process)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">============</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># Kickstart file automatically generated
by anaconda.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">install</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">cdrom</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">lang en_US.UTF-8</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">keyboard us</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">xconfig --startxonboot</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">network --device eth2 --bootproto dhcp</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">rootpw --iscrypted $1$MSRredacted37Is.p6py2ba7qbS/.50</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">selinux --enforcing</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">timezone America/Phoenix</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=mapper/pdc_bbbh
--append="rhgb quiet"</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># The following is the partition information
you requested</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># Note that any partitions you deleted
are not expressed</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># here so unless you clear all partitions
first, this is</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"># not guaranteed to work</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#clearpart --all --drives=mapper/pdc_bbbh</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
--ondisk=mapper/pdc_bbbh</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=mapper/pdc_bbbh</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768
pv.6</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00
--vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01
--vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">%packages</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@admin-tools</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@editors</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@text-internet</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@gnome-desktop</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@core</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@base</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@hardware-support</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@java</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@base-x</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@web-server</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@dial-up</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@printing</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">@graphical-internet</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">pax</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">==============</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Please advise on how I can go forward
on this.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tony</font>