Jensen and yast

moeller.s@lur.rwth-aachen.de
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 11:58:04 PDT

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    Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:58:04 +0000 (UCT)
From: <moeller.s@lur.rwth-aachen.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9909171838180.4827-100000@lx42.lur.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Jensen and yast

    Hi Alpha Afficinados!
    I am trying to get suse axp running on my old jensen...
    So I report the status up to now and ask my questions later.
    The installation kernel from the aboot disk does not work. (I have a
    working aboot already on my disk so I was able to boot at all.)
    It hangs while trying to start kswap.
    Using a working 2.2.12 kernel it is possible to go through linuxrc quite
    nicely. Then yast seems to activate fdisk only in "dos"-modus and there
    is no way to get it to read bsd-partitions. (I would have given up at that
    point, if I had not paid 98 DM for the distribution)
    Nevertheless if one copies the contents of the rpm packages to the
    designated bsd partition (I used mc but rpm2cpio and cpio should do the
    trick as well) it is possible to boot into suse 6.1. There although the
    systemn is running yast still thinks it has to install the system, when
    invoked and still does not see bsd partitions.
    So my first question is where does yast look for which partitions to use?
    After studying the yast sources for a short time I believe it must be in
    /etc/install.inf. Is that true, if yes what does this file look like?
    Could someone send me a copy of a proper install.inf.
    Oh and, X seems to lock up my machine under 6.1 after some random time. No
    X no console no telnet, nothing (not even sysreq works)....

    Anyway TIA
            Sebastian Möller

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