Message-Id: <200107060052.KAA04081@namod.qld.bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:52:35 +1000 From: rho@bigpond.net.au Subject: [suse-sparc] Ultra 5, YaST dies silently during installation
Hi,
Today I tried to install SuSE 7.1 for SPARC on this Ultra 5 Workstation.
After confirming that this beast obviously does not boot from floppies,
I booted it from tftp64.img via tftp. Linuxrc came up and I configured
that the rest of the install should happen via FTP from a server where I had
the downloaded iso images before.
At this stage, linuxrc tried to download
suse/cd1/suse/images/root
whereas there is no such file on the iso image. My guesses (after some
investigation) were
boot/initrd64
boot/vmlinuz64
disks/rootdisk32
all being gzipped compressed. I tried them in the settings/expert/force root
but whatever I chose, in the following YaST (YaST1 AND YaST2) never came on
the screen.
On a different virtual terminal I found:
......
Loading Image >>suse/cd1/boot/initrd64<<
Loading of rootimage returns 0
Mounting of inst-sys returns 0
Executing: >>/sbin/syslogd<<
Executing: >>update<<
Starting /sbin/YaST
Executing: >>/sbin/YaST<<
/sbin/YaST return code is 0 (errno = 0)
killing linuxrc (310)
killing linuxrc (311)
killing linuxrc (312)
Executing: >>rm -f /tmp/stp*.....
......
The hardware seems to be OK. Debian installed completely from the network.
Pretty impressive, actually. Also loading the "rescue" resulted in a
running system.
Any hints?
\rho
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