Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010506114954.02927830@mail.mindiq.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 11:57:04 -0400 From: kat <kathee@mindiq.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] install of 7.1
Here is what I saw...
Ultra250 system (PCI buss)
Had RH 6.2 -- no problems, for several months. Not happy with it, and I
have used SuSE on my alpha's, so I went with it for this. Solaris 7/8
install perfect. Here is some strange info...
First time through, although RH6.2 handled it, YaST2 could not handle
"Graphics" so defaulted to dumb mode. I thought this odd, but not a big
deal. Went ahead. Now for the fun... The partitions, no matter how hard I
tried, would not clear... I tried checking "Use whole drive" and no matter
what, it continued to say "Too many partitions left to install".. Which
seemed odd since I selected them all to clear. If I deleted all but sda8,
and re-created by hand, it accepted it.
Select default install.
After "We are about to boot the system to complete the installation of
packages", it actually drops completely to boot prom, then silo, which I
thought odd. I know it should "continue into rl 3" for the install, but it
does not.
What was the fix? An odd one... I installed Solaris 7 and cleared the
entire drive. Then I restarted the install from scratch of SuSE 7.1 and
selected YaST1 -- perfect install.
It now comes to mind that perhaps I should have tried YaST2 at this point,
now that my drive was clear. It is a simple 8 gig scsi drive, nothing fancy.
As for install log... well, since I cleanly installed w/YaST1, I won't have
it.. Sorry, I realize now it would have helped you folks greatly.
At any rate, I am happy with 7.1 now and will continue forward with
building it. Going to upgrade to 2.4.4 today, add Apache (via toolbox) and
Tomcat is this is going to be a front end to a large oracle app (which runs
on linux on an Alpha).
Live and learn...
cheers
Kathee
At 07:42 AM 5/6/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sat, May 05, Nitin G. wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>I doubt that this are the reasons. YaST2 had problems with the 7.0 with
>writing
>silo in some cases, but not with 7.1. And at this position of the
>installation,
>we don't need silo. What stands in /var/log/dosilo.log ?
>
>I have installed it on 14 SPARCs here, over serial console, with Solaris7/8
>on the same disk, but I never saw this.
>
> Thorsten
>
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