[gobolinux-users] Installation troubles

[Sean E. Russell]

Hiya.

I recently bought an HP TC4200 tablet laptop; this machine's hardware is 
pretty well supported under Linux.  It does not, however, have an internal 
CDROM.

I'd been warned about the Gobo live CD's inability to boot from an USB CDROM, 
so I was prepared.  For the record, it would be nice if the usb-storage 
module made it into either the kernel, or into the initrd for cases like 
this.

I ended up booting from a Gentoo live CD.  I partitioned the drive so that I 
had 3GB for Gentoo and 13GB for the "real" OS, which I intended to be Gobo.  
After getting everything set up and booting from Gentoo, I went to install 
the Gobo image on the other partition, and encountered a series of problems 
that kept me from getting a running system.

I'm working off the Gobo 012 release.  I tried following the installation 
instructions at http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=install, except that I wasn't 
booted from the CD, but chrooted to the squashfs.  I had tmpfs mounted 
on /tmp, and /proc, /dev, and /sys mounted via -o bind from the Gentoo root 
filesystem.

The first problem was that the "Installer" command was not available in the 
squashfs.  'find' returned no results.  I've since discovered that it is an 
alias in /Depot/LiveCDBootUp/Users_gobo/.zshrc -- I'm guessing that, because 
I was chrooted, I missed sourcing that .zshrc.

I next tried a manual installation.  I did locate the /Depot/Install 
directory, so I cd'ed to there and ran 
	./ProfileInstall Full /Mount/GoboLinux
as I had my partition mounted at /Mount/GoboLinux.  It went smoothly, so I 
exited the chroot, unmounted everything, remounted my partition, and chrooted 
there.  

In preparation for booting into Gobo, I next modified the Gobo fstab and, as 
the documentation suggested, went to modify:
	/Mount/GoboLinux/Programs/BootScripts/Settings/BootScripts/Options
only to discover that that file doesn't exist.

Here's where it all went pear-shaped.  After adding the Gobo config to grub 
and rebooting, the 2.6.11.9 came up, but then complained about being unable 
to find any init scripts.  I'm guessing that this had something to do with 
the missing Options file, but I'm at a loss what to do about it.

I went ahead and wiped Gobo and finished a full Gentoo install, so I'm not in 
critical need of fixing this, but I would like to install Gobo on the small 
partition, just to see if I can get it working.  The installation doesn't 
appear to be a problem; just the init process fails.  Does anybody have an 
idea of how I can get this working?

Thanks.

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