[Voyage-linux] Installation problem

[Gustin Johnson]

On 10-11-04 12:46 PM, Steve Taylor wrote:
> The saga continues. I booted my Kubuntu computer into Puppy Linux and
> was able to edit the lilo.conf file on my CF card. I changed it to
> read-write and added APCI=off. Neither change helped. Then I tried
> disconnecting the Soekris board's internal HD and then the long delays
> and the lost interrupt errors went away. Now it boots and if I then do
> the "remountrw" command all is well. Next I tried to edit the lilo.conf
> file in voyage with nano. Nano wasn't found so I tried vi which I don't
> know well at all. I was using gtkterm in Kubuntu which then got all
> messed up. Other people have also had that problem I found. Then I tried
> SSH into the board and that worked and I could edit with vi. then I
> tried "apt-get update" to prepare to install nano to see if I could.
> That gave we a MergeList error in /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian . .
> . and said the the package list could not be parsed or opened or some
> such thing.

Don't forget to run remountrw before doing an apt-get update.  Your file
system needs to be writable before you update the apt database or add
applications.

You should be able to add nano, though I prefer vi(m).  To be fair I use
vim nearly every day.

When you get the time, it is probably a good idea to test the CF card
from your Ubuntu install:

sudo fsck.ext2 -c -f -v /dev/<device id>

FYI, CF cards do wear out over time. Just because it used to work fine
in your camera, does not mean that it is not now in fact dying.

Hth,

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