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## old installer

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### old installer

by meandean » Fri May 13, 2011 4:04 pm

Instances of --frontend=gnome should be from refractainstaller.py or libgnome2-perl needs to be installed. Without one of these the old installer just hangs when trying to install.
might also look at the installer here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kyloris/files/
he simplified refractainstaller even more (I helped)
may not be anything you want to use though since you already have the new one

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### Re: old installer

by fsmithred » Fri May 13, 2011 8:54 pm

Huh? I thought traveler ended up using the old installer, and I thought I tried it once, too, but I could be wrong on both counts. I looked at that installer.py, but I'll have to look at it side-by-side with the other one and with mine. I know I had to bind mount something else, but I can't recall what it was.
Also, I'm reminded of a question I had for you. Is there some reason why you used a block size of 1048 instead of 1024 for the swapfile?

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### Re: old installer

by meandean » Fri May 13, 2011 10:46 pm

> fsmithred wrote:Huh? I thought traveler ended up using the old installer, and I thought I tried it once, too, but I could be wrong on both counts.

maybe pebkac or id10t error then....will start over and report back

> I looked at that installer.py, but I'll have to look at it side-by-side with the other one and with mine. I know I had to bind mount something else, but I can't recall what it was.

I think I do recall us discussing that issue once via email....will take a look when I get a chance....thanks for the heads up...

> Also, I'm reminded of a question I had for you. Is there some reason why you used a block size of 1048 instead of 1024 for the swapfile?

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because I wanted a 250mb swapfile instead of 255.9
something about odd numbers gives me the creeps
probably just a FU on my part...insert facepalm image here

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### Re: old installer

by fsmithred » Sat May 14, 2011 1:22 pm

The commands in installer.py are almost all the same as refractainstaller.py. Differences that I see are reiserfs vs. ext3, and there's no choice of where to install the bootloader.
I looked back at the email. I needed to add /sys to the mounts, because it wasn't in the commands you sent me. It is in your installer (also in older versions). You also suggested I add /dev/pts, but I didn't. Seems to work fine without it.

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### Re: old installer

by nadir » Tue May 17, 2011 9:23 am

Nope, i can confirm that it hangs without installing lignome2-perl.
I just tested.
I booted the live-CD (6.05), opened the xfce4-menu, clicked on system->refractainstaller, and after two or three eternities nothing has happened ( i had forgotten that VBox was open....).
I rebooted, installed libgnome2-menu, did the same and in an instant got the debconf-menu about "configuring the keyboard settings".
Now i have come to think: seems like i ran into that, and, as the most easy solution, have picked the new installer. Not sure about that, but it might be.
all as far i can tell.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: old installer

by fsmithred » Tue May 17, 2011 1:37 pm

Yeah, I just tried it, and I can confirm it, too. It hangs at "Preparing the installation." Adding libgnome2-perl fixes it. Now I'm torn between re-releasing this version of refracta with fixes or leaving it alone to move on to the next idea. (Next idea was to start over with a minimal install and build up slowly, leaving out as many recommends as possible, and possibly using more gnome apps.)

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### Re: old installer

by nadir » Tue May 17, 2011 2:45 pm

two cents from me:
a) leave it alone. Its an easy fix and there still is the new installer
b) i like that installer a lot. In general i would keep it (not sure what two installers might be good for... but still).
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: old installer

by meandean » Fri May 20, 2011 4:30 pm

out with the old, in with the new
start over nice and fresh from a minimal install
throw out the old installer and snapshot tools and use the new ones
I just suggested the kyloris stuff because I like the simplified layout compared to the old refracta tools. If you was going to keep the old tools that is...

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