[suse-sparc] installation problems 7.3 on sparcatation 1

From: Philipp Poeml (phil.poeml@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 10:42:36 PST

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From: Philipp Poeml <phil.poeml@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <26338.1008096156@www20.gmx.net>
Subject: [suse-sparc] installation problems 7.3 on sparcatation 1

    Hi there,

    today I tried to install SuSE Linux 7.3 on an old SPARCstation 1 (4/60).
    It has of course no CDROM, so I booted from floppy disks using the
    bootdisk32 and rootdisk32 images.
    So far everything is fine and I tried to start installation in Linuxrc via
    NFS. The sparc mounts the NFS system and then loads someting into RAM and
    the screen gets black and nothing happens.
    So I switched to console 4 and found, that my screen gets filled with the
    followng error message:
    kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -h binfmt-0000, errno = 8
    And this goes on for hours and so the installation stucks.

    Has anybody an idea how I can install linux then? Is there for example an
    option for the bootprompt?

    Cheers,
    Philipp 

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