my problem is im installing and i get to where it says " you are in a bash shell enter"exit" to continue installation i do and it stalls and goes nowhere ...Help!!!
If you are installing 2.0 & you are where I suspect you are (i.e. Astaro has just told you it's going to partition your disk); you look away for a moment; then when you look back you see the bash message below the bottom half of a blue window. The top half of the blue window, which you can no longer see, probably has an error message saying Astaro either cannot find your hard drive or cannot partition it.
You have to watch closely to catch this error message because it disappears pretty quickly.
I've had it happen on WD drives with some Linux dist installed, & had to fill the drive with zeros to get Astaro to install. Probably happens in other situations also.
I am having a similar problem with the beta version 3.050. The system is just rebooting itself without any installation. The rebooting occurs once it gets to "Loading ramdisk......."
I however observed that the problem is on some particular system. But what I do not understand is why the beta 3.050 is causing problem since I was able to install version 2.0 and beta 3.040 on the same system without any problem.
If you have a problem like this its great to report it like you have however you have to expect there to be some problems with beta software.
Whatever the case it seems system specific I haven't had that particular problem with 3.050 but had other problems with 3.04x they were fixed eventually.
Could system specification change between betas 3.040 and 3.050.
I can understand if that happens while moving from 2.0 to 3.0.
Even the specifications on the manual is not exact as the indicated on "asl-hardware.txt", which is found on the website.
1 - Manual: 133 MHz processor 32 MB RAM 1.5 GB IDE or SCSI hard disk a bootable IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive, or a 3.5" disk drive 2 PCI netwrork cards
2 - asl-hardware.txt: 8 GB IDE or SCSI Harddisk ATAPI or SCSI CD-ROM Drive 600 MHz Pentium-compatible CPU (no SMP support yet) 128 MB RAM 2 PCI Ethernet Cards
The major differences is on both the processor and RAM. What will be the minimum requirement in this case.
The installation method was changed between 3.040 and 3.050. The latest one requires much more memory, and I assume that it's a RAM problem. Please try to upgrade your hardware [:)]s for 2.x)
Hello, i have the same problem: "Loading ramdisk......." followed by a reboot.
I‘have tested booting from the new ASL on 6 PCs.
PCs/CPUs tested: Dual 550MHz PII: failed 333MHz. Celeron: failed 450MHz. AMD K6: failed 200MHz. PPro: failed 1,6GHz. P4: OK 700MHz. PIII: OK 1GHz. PIII: OK
RAM tested: 1GHz. PIII / 64MB RAM: OK It’s not the RAM that matters, i think the problem is CPU speed lower than 600MHz! In that case i’d like to get a message like „CPU not supported!!“
just more of the same, but i thought i'd post just in case it helps ...
I had a similar problem and did the same as yukka ... the disk had (gasp) ntfs on it ... so when i hit the bash prompt i ran fdisk and blew away they offending partition. but it went fast and i missed it the first few times ...
hardware: pentium 200, 4gb hdd, 128mb ram ...
august
ps: this is version 2.016 ... and just for home use ... dunno about 3.x
just more of the same, but i thought i'd post just in case it helps ...
I had a similar problem and did the same as yukka ... the disk had (gasp) ntfs on it ... so when i hit the bash prompt i ran fdisk and blew away they offending partition. but it went fast and i missed it the first few times ...
hardware: pentium 200, 4gb hdd, 128mb ram ...
august
ps: this is version 2.016 ... and just for home use ... dunno about 3.x