Re: [suse-axp] installing on an ES40

From: Martin Tanzer (m.tanzer@artists.at)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 00:15:55 PDT

  • Next message: Waite, Michael: "RE: [suse-axp] installing on an ES40"

    Message-ID: <38EC39AB.D69F2491@artists.at>
    Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:15:55 +0200
    From: Martin Tanzer <m.tanzer@artists.at>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] installing on an ES40
    

    I had diffuculties as well with fdisk of SuSE 6.3 AXP (SRM on an AS255) - Yast
    was not able to "see" the BSD-Partitions I created. To solve this problem I
    created the partitions with SuSE 6.2 AXP and installed 6.3. The swap was not
    recocnised - I created it manuallay after successful instalation with mkswap or
    something like that.

    martin

    Wolfgang Kutscherauer wrote:

    > Michael.Waite@compaq.com schrieb:
    > >
    > > Um,
    > > So I am trying to put SuSE 6.3 on an ES40 with 8 gigs and eight 9gig
    > > internal disks.
    > >
    > > What is the recommended way to get the installer to correctly write
    > > partitions onto the disks?
    > > For example.....the yast installer does not seem to want to talk to the disk
    > > correctly. It keeps complaining about bacd superblocks/or/ too many mounted
    > > filesyste.
    > >
    > > When I run "fdisk" from another tty it has no idea what the correct number
    > > of cylendars are on the disk.
    > >
    > > If i ignore what fdisk is displaying and just do
    > > 3 through 150
    > > 151 through 350
    > > 351 through 800
    > > 801 through 1106
    > >
    >
    > Is the ES40 a machine with ARC-firmware or with the SRM-console?
    > As discribed in the SuSE 6.3 Book, chapter 2.1.5, there ar two diferent
    > ways to make partitions an AXP-computers:
    >
    > 1. ARC firmware: do with Yast
    >
    > 2. SRM-Console need BSD-partitions: change to the 2nd conssole with
    > [ALT]+F2, start fdisk and change with 'b' to BSD-Partiton-tables, and
    > work on as described in the book
    >
    > Greatings from Bavaria
    >
    > W. Kutscherauer
    >
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