Installation problems

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The Hog · Post by **The Hog** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:57 pm

I use livecd-i686 2007.0
After loading default kernel everything goes normal, but soon after the question about keymaps i have:

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cp: etc: No such file or directory
cp: home: No such file or directory
// and so on
Bad init '/sbin/init'
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init

caps lock and scroll lock start blinking, system hangs.
Can somebody help me?

LoDown · Post by **LoDown** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:11 pm

How much RAM does the machine you are using the LiveCD on have? It is possible that there is not enough memory to unpack the image...

NathanZachary · Post by **NathanZachary** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:27 am

Also did you check the downloaded .iso against the MD5 checksum? It is possible that you have a corrupt image.

padoor · Post by **padoor** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:47 am

also you must use the slowest possible writing speed to write the iso image to disk for best results.

The Hog · Post by **The Hog** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:53 pm

1. I have 512 mb RAM & think it's enough
2. md5 sum is ok
3. thanks, maybe my cd is corrupt, i'll try again with other cd. But I think that in case of broken disk output should be much more verbose

NathanZachary · Post by **NathanZachary** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:00 pm

It could also be that your RAM is bad. Have you run memtest86 from the prompt? I would try that and let it run for a while.

Zakalwe · Post by **Zakalwe** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:44 am

Well I have exactly the same problem, it seems to stem from attempting to mount squashfs, everything falls apart after that fails. I have the same thing on both the minimal and LiveCD versions of 2007.0, interestingly the AMD64 release fails in a different way (boots up to a point then insists it can't find a boot device, doesn't like my DVD drive I suspect) leaving me with no way to install Gentoo 2007.0. Sigh back to Ubuntu I guess...

My system AMD64 X2, 2Gb RAM, SATA HDD, Panasonic DVD Writer, ASUS Nforce4 mobo, PCI-e ATI vidcard