Problem installing lenny

[Valerio Pachera]

Before I tried to install for the first time debian edu lenny.
I selected the first boot option "Install" and proceeded selectin the
"Main" "Thin C. S" and "workstation" profiles.
I flet lost when it asked the name of OCS inventory machine.
I wrote "localhost"...
I do not know what is this service...can you give me a short explanation?
After it asked more question about OCS: it asked passwords.
I inserted the same password of root but it gave me this error:

"Error 2002 (HY000): can't connect to local mysql server through
socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock'

After that I had to select 'ignore' to proceed with the installation.
The next step was "Build LTSP chroot" but there it stopped with an
error simply saing that the step has failed and that I coulded go back
to the menù or try again.
The only choise was "continue" and pressing enter it was trying and
failing again the step. With ESC i went back on the menù, installed
the boot loader and ended the installation.

Actualy I don't know if the debian edu can boot because I've done a
stupid with the boot loader on the MBR.
I run the DVD again to use the rescue option thinking it to give me a
shell bash but it seems to make a new installation !?
What is rescue mode ment to do exactly?

I have to wait and find a live cd to recover the bootloader on the MBR :)

The iso I'm using is old of 2-3 days about.

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Valerio Pachera]
> Before I tried to install for the first time debian edu lenny.
> I selected the first boot option "Install" and proceeded selectin the
> "Main" "Thin C. S" and "workstation" profiles.

It is probably a good idea to skip thin client server unless you plan
to work on fixing the installation.

> I flet lost when it asked the name of OCS inventory machine.
> I wrote "localhost"...

Good choice.  The OCS stuff is not ready yet, and I dropped it from
the default installation yesterday.

> I do not know what is this service...can you give me a short explanation?

It is an web based inventory database.  See
<URL:http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/>.

> After it asked more question about OCS: it asked passwords.
> I inserted the same password of root but it gave me this error:
>
> "Error 2002 (HY000): can't connect to local mysql server through
> socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock'
>
> After that I had to select 'ignore' to proceed with the installation.

Yes, this is the problem that need to be solved before we can install
and configure it automatically.

> The next step was "Build LTSP chroot" but there it stopped with an
> error simply saing that the step has failed and that I coulded go
> back to the menù or try again.

I believe this is slightly better now, but the LTSP installation is
currently not tested and probably do not work yet.

> I run the DVD again to use the rescue option thinking it to give me a
> shell bash but it seems to make a new installation !?
> What is rescue mode ment to do exactly?

Have not tested the rescue boot, no idea how it work.

> I have to wait and find a live cd to recover the bootloader on the MBR :)
>
> The iso I'm using is old of 2-3 days about.

Some of the issues you report are fixed (ocsinventory is no longer
installed), but others (LTSP install) is probably still there.  I have
tested main-server install and main-server + workstation install, and
am working on the PXE installation from main-server at the moment.  I
hope someone can look at the LTSP installation soon.

Note that there is something strange with the automatic configuration
system.  It does not work when I tested in in qemu, but work when I
run it manually during or after installation.  No idea what is going
on.  It will affect several services.

Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen


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[Valerio Pachera]

I repeated the lenny installation in expert grphical mode.
I got the same problem as before.
At the step "Build LTSP choor" I chose not after few tentatives and
terminated the installation.

debian edu does not complet the boot correctly.
first: there are no messagese during the boot. I don't know if that is
wanted or not.

second: it ends in screen with a list of error message:
---
some errors were found during installation

error: unable to submit to
'http://localhost/cgi-bin/sitesummary-collector.cgi'
error: unable to submit to
'http://localhost/cgi-bin/sitesummary-collector.cgi'
error: LTSP client installation ended abnormaly
error: LTSP client installation ended abnormaly
error: Missing package etcinvsk
error: Missing package etcinvsk
error: ./dhcp: dhcpd3 is not running
error: ./ldap-client: ldap/ldap.conf misses definition of HOST tjener.intern
error: ./ldap-clinet: unable to find 'tjener' in 'all-hosts' using ldap2netgroup
error: setnetgrent() failed
etc...

I press ok to this message and then i get a console.
There's no way to start kdm or gdm.


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