Re: problem installing RH5

[Steve Frampton <frampton mail flarc edu on ca>]

On Sat, 30 May 1998, Seth Paine wrote:

> Hello all.  I am in the Proccess of installing RH5 on my Alpha 166.  I
> made the MILO disk, and that booted correctly.  Then I typed boot floppy
> with the boot disk in.  The manual (please forgive me being a newbie and
> all, I am just following the manual) said that it would ask for the
> ramdisk.  But it gives me a boot: prompt, and I have no clue what to do
> now.  I would appreciate any help you can give me.  TIA.

Yeah...damn thing.  I never got past that either, until I tried the
following silly thing:

    boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1

Best of luck!

P.S. I've started typing up an Alpha install document.  Basically
installing 5.0 on my Alpha XL 233 and getting it ready for prime-time was
a *nightmare* for me, and then I decided to wipe my system and do it again
earlier this month just so I could document it -- and it was a *nightmare*
again.  :-)  The document is not complete yet, but if you have any more
problems, it might help you out.

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