Message-ID: <3AFA92F8.5A406A5B@ps.bellhowell.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:09:12 -0400 From: Bob Schaefer <robert.schaefer@ps.bellhowell.com> Subject: Continuing install woes
Okay, since nobody bothered to respond to my last e-mail, I've since
had some time to play with the machines again. I now have the nfs thing
down to a science and have that and tftp working quite well. My problem
is related to the SCSI disk I have in the machine. Its a Seagate 2Gig
disk inside the box setup as device 0. Since I'm unfamilliar with SCSI,
could this be causing a problem? Basically what's happening is the disk
originally contained a DOS partition, which I was able to delete under
Suse, but whenever it attempts to write a partition, it times out for
some reason. Is there a setting I'm missing or something else? I know
it doesn't have a SUNLabel on the disk, but I can't seem to figure out
how to get enough of a working system to tell fdisk to write one.
I've tried starting the rescue system, but I'm running headless and the
rescue system won't put a login prompt on the serial console. (If
someone can tell me how to change that, I'd also appreciate that as
well)
I've tried options on the boot, and nothing seems to phase it. The
manual only seems to cover what to do when everything goes right, and
not what to do when something goes wrong!
P.S. - Just as an FYI, I'm not new to Linux, I've been runing it on my
PC system for quite a few years and can work my way around it
pretty well, but I don't know SUN hardware. (I bought the box
in a work auction for a good price and was hoping to set it up
as a server/firewall for my home network)
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