From: "Alexander Lazarev" <alazarev@rcn.com> Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 23:32:08 -0400 Message-ID: <FIEEKOMDLHIPJDDEDOODEEFFCAAA.alazarev@rcn.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] install of 7.1
I am surprised to see only few questions like this. I guess, not many people
have Ultras lying around without Solaris wasting disk space. Too bad RedHat
dropped Sparc distro... SuSe reproducibly fails to install on my Ultra5 - I
am about to give up and go to Mandrake 7.1. Most of the problems are related
to the way SuSe writes its openprom entries. Unlike RedHat 6.2 which keeps
SUN's partition structure, SuSe creates 2 partitions by default - please pay
attention and record their names (like /dev/hd1 or /dev/hd4). Boot partition
is very small and normally is /dev/hd1 - I had to edit prom to make sure
boot device is called "linux" and boot partition is /dev/hd1. At boot Stop-A
and type printenv to get a table of prom variables. This is most likely
where a bag of worms is.
My problems did not stop there - after running network configuration I have
lost one of the Ethernet cards, curiously enough, - Sun's on-board
happymeal. I still blame openprom - I have found two PCI entries there.
Last thing - there is no way I could get X to work during install as well as
after I have tweaked YaST2. SuSe just claims my Mach64 is not there... Only
hours of manual editing gave me barely running system. Good for learning
Linux Expert tricks, I guess...
Good Luck,
Shura-Lee
alazarev@rcn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Nitin G. [mailto:niting@cyberdude.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 10:18 PM
To: suse-sparc@suse.com; kat
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] install of 7.1
I think the problem lies with yast2. Boot from the CD and then run yast1 to
complete the install. I had the same problem but installing with yast1
solved it. Yast2 does not write the silo information (i think), hence the
post install process fails....yast1 does not have this problem
let us know if this solves your problem.
-nitin
----- Original Message -----
From: "kat" <kathee@mindiq.com>
To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 2:48 PM
Subject: [suse-sparc] install of 7.1
> Ok, I give up....
>
> I am trying a fresh install of 7.1 on an Ultra that HAD 6.2 (redhat) on
> it. It gets to the point of "We are now booting linux to finish the
> install" and boots but just hangs after that. Any ideas?
>
> /boot = /dev/sda1 = 32M
> / = /dev/sda2 = 512M
> /usr = /dev/sda5 = 3 gig
>
> Formats fine, starts installing all the packages, but no luck after. The
> system ran for months on RH 6.2 with no problems...
>
> any help is appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Kathee
>
>
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