Here is one (long) story of RTP installation(s):
I had earlier installed twice RTP to my laptop, with SOME
difficulties. After install from 08 00 OEM release CD, system booted
up but after photon startup screen was blank (no proper support for
chipset). Didn’t investigate how to fix it. Installation was inside
dos-partition.
Second install was from 01/2001 CD to laptop. Install was ok (to dos
partition again), but boot failed. After disabling PCMCIA enumerator,
system booted up, but without network (PCMCIA) it’s not very usefull
for me. And not to itself either. Voyager gives dialog 'Error
starting, interupted function call) after trying to open
welcome-screen. Package installer starts to open, but window never
appears. Help viewer dies on window resize, and won’t show me actual
help text even without resizing. Hardware itself is ok,
linux-QNX4-win95 are runnign fine. QNX4 is having serious problems
with pcmcia-ethernet card (DE-660), it’s getting only 50-90% ping’s
ok, others have no problems at all.
Now installed to ‘normal’ PC, from 01/2001 CD. First of all,
installation asked how to place partition, since I have >8G disk. Hmm,
disk IS 3.2G. Said ‘put it anywhere’.
I deleted one partition, and said ‘use 100% of free space’. Installed,
and said ‘I want to use another boot manager’. Booted to linux, linux
fdisk says previously ok partition table includes bad entries, locical
and physical entries are different. Lilo won’t install itself. Booted
back to RTP installation program. It says ‘you have existing RTP
partition, delete it?’. Yes delete it, but still no free space. RTP
installation had created partition table which confuses itself.
After this, I tried to set drive parameters manually to BIOS (normally
have autodetect). Won’t help. Then I booted to QNX4. Deleted and
created RTP partition (just re-write partition table, no new
install). Then boot to linux. Fdisk is not anymore complaining about
bad entries. Lilo is, won’t install. Delete partition with linux
fdisk, create it again. Lilo installs ok.
Now, after few hours of work, I have RTP up and running. Logged in,
and look how things are. Started package manager. It starts wider than
my screen (640x480 display, plain VGA. Computer is normally used over
net, X on linux or Phinx on QNX4), and when both sides are outside of
screen, I can’t resize it. No titlebar for moving it. I switch to
another viewport with ctrl-alt-2, start terminal and slay package
installer. Start it again. Moving to another viewports (1 and 3), I
can scrink it to nearly fit to my screen. I install more packages.
I edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I just remove some comments, to enable
things which I think are usefull. (chkfsys, clock setting, inetd)
After reboot, it runs chkfsys, sets clock and then says ‘can’t execute
rc.sysinit’, and opens sh. I’m confused, it was running rc.sysinit. Try
to find another rc.sysinit file, (find / -name …). Then come to
conclusion there has to be something after clock setting which is
breaking everything. Add more echo’s, comment out things, etc. No,
won’t help. Then I finally realise reason have to be chkfsys, after
running it, few lines are done and then nothing. Remove it, everything
goes fine. Remove echo’s.
Then check, no inetd running. Hmm, I just commented out some lines,
not edited more:
Start some daemons…
if test ! -d /dev/socket; then
echo “Starting inetd”
inetd
echo “Starting pdebug at port 8000”
pdebug 8000 &
fi
After checking existence of /dev/socket before and after starting
inetd, came to conclusion if test was broken, removed !. Inetd
started. I can use computer remotely from desktop, with telnet
(firewalled environment). Is ssh available? And what about Phinx or
other solutions to remote-photon to X-terminal?
Now, looks like system is up and running. For the next, i need
network-filesystems mounted. At least plain mount -t nfs won’t
work. Permissions are ok, since same computer with same IP on QNX4 and
linux get’s mounts. Ok, I’ll try to dig up what’s the story, or
somebody having solution to this?
Anyway, I’m not sure if we are ready to switch to RTP (from QNX4). Or
would I say, RTP is not ready for it…
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M. Tavasti / tavastixx@iki.fi / +358-40-5078254
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