From: Michael Hieb (mhieb_at_nyc.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 15:44:26 CEST
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:44:26 -0400 From: Michael Hieb <mhieb@nyc.rr.com> Message-Id: <20030512094426.4d06d254.mhieb@nyc.rr.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] install problem
I was able to install on a SS5 using a tftp server (and booting from
net) and then installing from nfs. Also I had problems with yast2 so I
found the best approach was to do the minimum install and once installed
boot the new system and use yast to add to the install according to
taste.
HTH
On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:07:21 +0200 (MET DST)
Vladislav Kyjashko <kyyashko@fzu.cz> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I unsuccessful tried install SuSE from CDs on my Sparc Station5.
> I tried 3 methods with some variations:
>
> 1. Classic
> YaST stoped before installing of packages with some error like
> "instert CD1" When I checked box "show detais" it said that can't
> mount CD1 becuse of /dev/sr0 is already mounted on /var/adm/mount ...
> I switched on shell and saw that yast run from CD. Not from some
> ramdisk. Of cousre fuser show that /dev/sr0 is under kernel so I can't
> kill it ;-)
>
> 2. From HD
> Than I tried to copy 1st CD contents (except k2de* & x*) on free
> partition on /dev/sda5.
> After boot from CD and run install from hardisk YaST asked on which
> partition and which directory install source is...
> I've tried all posible directories from "/" to "/sue/inst-sys/" but
> yast can't found nothing from which install.
>
> 3. YaST from HD
> Boot into rescue mode, chroot to /suse/inst-sys (on /dev/sda5) and
> run /sbin/inst_setup or something of /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/ have not
> successed too. The most optimistic case was when yast not found the
> hard disk %-[
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regars
> Vladislav
>
>
>
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