Re: [suse-sparc] I'm writing a review of SuSE for SPARC and it's not going well...

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 10:31:53 PDT

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    Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:31:53 +0200
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20000920193153.A23597@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] I'm writing a review of SuSE for SPARC and it's not going well...

    Hello,

    On Wed, Sep 20, Ethan Dicks wrote:

    > I have downloaded the ISO images, burned discs, have booted the 1st CD
    > on a 52Mb SPARCstation 1+ and I'm running into what appear to be problems
    > with the basic installation procedure.
    >
    > Am I right in concluding that nobody has tested an text-based install over
    > the TTY-A port? I see errors that the installation procedure can't

    It works fine here. Most of my build hosts have only a serial console.
    On the silo prompt, you should try to boot "yast1 TERM=vt100" or
    "yast1 TERM=vt102". And you should make sure that the terminal window
    is at least 80x24 characters big. I always prefer screen as terminal program.

    YaST2 is not a good solution in the moment due a new bug introduced with
    a last minute fix.

      Thorsten 

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