Re: [suse-sparc] Ultra 5, YaST dies silently during installation

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 21:47:38 PDT

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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20010706064738.A11044@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Ultra 5, YaST dies silently during installation

    On Fri, Jul 06, rho@bigpond.net.au wrote:

    > 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.

    You cannot do a FTP installation with the CD version, but you can do a
    NFS installation. The reason is that YaST2 cannot do an ftp installation
    and that the root image is far to big for most machines.

      Thorsten 

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