Try mounting the cdrom (use settrans) and then accessing the CD as a mounted file system.
Phil. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Greg Buchholz wrote: > > I'm installing the Hurd (J2 iso set) for the first > time and everything was going smoothly until I wanted > to start installing packages with "dselect". When I > select "cdrom" as the install media, I get a message > like... > > /dev/fd5: line222: 59 Segmentation fault mount >$tp.m > > ...and dselect recovers rather gracefully and allows > me to try again. If I select "cdrom" a few more > times, I can get a message like... > > panic: zalloc: zone ipc ports exhausted > > -or- > > panic: zalloc: zone threads exhausted > > ...and then my machine gets rebooted. It seems fairly > consistant and repeatable (I've done it 4 times so > far), but it can happen the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time I > try to select the cdrom. I'll include my machine > configuration below. Oh, and I don't seem to get any > core files from the segfault. > > > Hope this is of use to someone, > > Greg Buchholz > > > My Hardware: > -AMD Athlon XP 1600+ > -512 MB RAM (was 1GB, had to take out half in order to > boot) > -Award Bios V6.00PG ver ABA45 > -FIC AD-11 motherboard > -AMD 760 chipset > -Matrox G200 graphics card > -D-Link DFE-530TX network card > -D-Link OHCI ieee1394 card > -Philips 8x IDE CD-RW > -Acer 36x IDE CDROM > -Seagate 6.5GB IDE drive > -Seagate 40GB IDE drive (Hurd installed on hd1s5) > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd > > -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
