From: Philip Griffiths (p.griffiths_at_ulster.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 11:31:35 CEST
Message-ID: <3D942577.9AA29757@ulster.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:31:35 +0100 From: Philip Griffiths <p.griffiths@ulster.ac.uk> Subject: [suse-sparc] SS20 SUSE installation problems
Hello, I am Philip Griffiths, I work at the University of Ulster. As
well as being a Research Fellow working on materials to achieve greater
energy efficiency in buildings. I also have eight years experience
administering a cluster of Sparc workstations and servers.
We are working with a group of researchers in Germany who use SuSE and
so that we can exchange data/software without having to re-compile we
have decided to use one of our older machines (an SS20) as a test bed
for linux.
I downloaded the ISOs for sparc machines and burnt the CDs without any
problem. I then booted the SS20 from the CD, again no problem and
followed the installation procedure. I started to get error messages
with regard to partitioning of the Hard drives (one 1GB internal, one
9GB SCSI ext.). I sought some advice and came across the messages on
this forum about using fdisk.
I followed that advice and managed to avoid the error messages when the
machine came to the formating stage of the installation.
HOWEVER, now the installation hangs at the formating stage without any
error message. The interface still functions as I can click the 'Abort
Installation' button, but it doesn't seem to do anything. The only thing
left is a STOP-A.
Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a workaround?
regards
Philip Griffiths
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