Left a note in the thread over at lovers.

I'll continue the thread here once I get my hands on a IDE/LTIDE cable adapter and use a desktop to do the install.

If you decide to fix the installer, I'm willing to use the 9300 to test with.
The 9300 works fine to install other SM packages.
Nice package, thanks.

Where/how is the install failing? Won't boot? Video issues?

This is a continuation of the same thread from the mepislovers forum so I'm sorry it wasn't clear what I was seeing.

Just to catch you up... when the installer reaches the part where it wants to format the swap partition, it hangs and times out giving the Unable to continue message and returning to step 1 dialog, thereby aborting the install.

The hardware has taken installs from every version of SM since the 3.x series. I'm only seeing the install stall on the M7 RC1 release so far.

I saw the same error on my Toshiba laptop using a different distro -- Ubuntu 7.04, I believe. I simply returned to step one and restarted the process, and it worked the second time. ... No idea why it happened. I was able to duplicate the error and it always seemed to partition the drive on the second attempt.

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The hardware has taken installs from every version of SM since the 3.x series. I'm only seeing the install stall on the M7 RC1 release so far.[/quote]

Two of the three attempts were with a drive already partitioned.

Once from the existing SM that was on it, once from a blow and go with Ranish created partitions and the last time failed with the drive factory clean.

I can't remember if I re-tried it after failure but I thought I did when I still had the SM partitions on it.

Still fails after multiple re-try attempts. It is failing to format the partitions, not to recognize or create them.

I have not seen a way to get past this in the installer.

Rudy, can you format the partition with cfdisk or gparted? ie outside of the installer.

What are you trying to format as? ext3 is recommended for hd.

When you try to install, any messages appear in the terminal to give a clue?

Maybe it is a bad burn. Burn slow speed x8 max. and DAO.

As stated earlier, I have burned a second CD from the ISO after verifying the MD5. I burn at 8x to ensure no misread problems. Both CD's have the same result at the same point in the process and both CD's will boot and run live perfectly.

I only use ext3 so it is not an odd format problem.

I'll play with it some more but right now I'm busy looking for my IDE cable converter so I can use a desktop to get past this. I don't think anyone is interested in the cause at this point, only a solution. Right?

Rudy wrote:......... I don't think anyone is interested in the cause at this point, only a solution. Right?

Well actually I am interested in finding out the cause, but you are obviously more interested in the solution ie getting antiX on your hdd __{{emoticon}}__

Good luck with the ide cable converter.

Actually both for me...

I would like to see how fast this runs on the Toshiba 3110ct but I would also like to find out why this particular release is a problem installing on a Solo 9300 that has had no problems of this type with multiple Mepis releases in the past.

This is my standard method for getting the distros on the 3110's.

I'll keep at it but I'm out of play time for a week or so.

One extra clue.. I went back and installed SM65 on the drive just to make sure everything was kosher and it went fine. When it failed on the AntiX try after that, I noticed that Gparted didn't see the drive and neither did cfdisk.

I think this is the problem. The live release is not letting the drive be seen to the OS for some reason.

HTH some.

Since I can't find my LTIDE to IDE adapter, I can't even see it done through a desktop either. Maybe I wasn't meant to install this thing.

Thanks for the feedback Rudy, shame it won't let you install.

Hopefully antiX-M7-rc2 will work out, when available, hopefully very soon.
You could also try antiX-Mepis6.5"Spartacus"

Thanks.
I'll still try rc1 if I can locate my adapter using a desktop and try it again on the Solo with rc2 although if nothing is ever found in the installer to cause this loss of HDD recognition, I can't see how that will change much but I'll remain optimistic for that circumstance.

I'll provide feedback in this thread no matter the results. I hate dead end threads.

Have a great weekend.