Message-ID: <000b01c1372c$e3a4c680$2415fc3e@isaac> From: "Julian Rawcliffe" <julian.rawcliffe@ntlworld.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:37:27 +0100 Subject: [suse-sparc] Solved Problems installing 7.1 on SS2
Hi
Many, many thanks to Nick for his advice on this issue.
After an awful lot of problems with the install, I simply did as suggested
below and Suse is currently installing on my system. Much joy!
Also, thanks to the others who made suggestions, but this is what fixed it
for
me.
Regards, Julian Rawcliffe
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:20:43PM -0400, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I had a similar problem with my SparcStation 20 when doing the original
> partitioning. Although the Solaris OS was wiped clean, when the machine
> would boot, it would try to mount whatever partition was set in the OPEN
> BOOT parameters. That would lock that partition and not allow me to
delete
> or make changes to it. Actually, it would let me delete it, but it didn't
> actually delete, so when I tried to create what I thought was a 1Gig
> partition, I was 250Mb short (the size of the "locked" original partition.
> Creating a 500Mb worked. Once I got the system actually booting, to the
> correct partition, that other partition was no longer locked & I was able
to
> delete & repartition it.
>
> But the moral of the story is...Disable auto-booting (or set it to boot to
a
> device that doesn't exist...CDRom in your case) and the partition won't
get
> locked at boot-up. That may fix your problem w/ partitioning.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Rawcliffe" <julian.rawcliffe@ntlworld.com>
> To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:26 PM
> Subject: [suse-sparc] Problems installing 7.1 on SS2
>
>
> > I have a SparcStation2 with 64M and 2x1Gb disk serial console no CD.
> > PPC Linux machine is the tftp server, x86 Linux is NFS server and Yast1
> > starts without any problem.
> > During the partition part of the install, I can change the type of
> > partitions
> > and can delete existing partitions but any attempt to create results in
a
> > briefly
> > displayed error something along the lines of 'Time too long...' - I
don't
> > get to
> > see the whole message - and then get sent back to start of install
> process.
-- Regards, Julian Rawcliffe, julian.rawcliffe@ntlworld.com-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sparc-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sparc-help@suse.com
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