Re: Unidentified subject!

[Craig Oettle <craig_oettle dynasty net>]

Alex Ponnath wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a AS200 / 4/233  and stand in front of a big problem..... i do not
> know how i can get this
> box to load linux redhat 5.1 for alpha .
> I have a 2 Gig HD installed in it and a SCSI CDROM and thats how fat i get,
> i get the > prompt
> and now i am stuck. The Docs talk about milo, SRA and stuff like that which
> is new to me
> since i come out the intel word, where you have a boot floppy and you are
> ready to go.
> 
> I hope you have 3 minutes of your time to point me in the right direction on
> how to get the system installed
> 
> thanks
> 
> Alex
> 
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A number of people have recently gotten AS 200s (Onsale.com per
chance?), and so there's been 
activity on the list about them recently.  I just finished the install
an hour ago, and I'm still
tweaking it
(with many questions to inflict on the more senior members of this
list.)

Want a quick newbie rundown?

Get your 3 separate diskette images (by FTP or off the CD) milo.dd,
avanti.img, and ramdisk.img. 
(I'm assuming your machine didn't come with arc)

Put milo.dd in the floppy drive and type "boot dva0"
This will get you to the Milo prompt.

Replace Milo with avanti.img and type "boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0
load_ramdisk=1
prompt_ramdisk=1"
After the kernel boots, it will ask for a root disk.

Insert your ramdisk.img floppy, and the Redhat install will begin (after
you press enter).

Caveats:
Make sure you have at least 32M of RAM.  I had to buy more to install.
Partition your drives smaller than 2 G apiece.
Still figuring out external modems.  Get back to you on that one.

Have fun.

Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX

Thanks to Eric I had a great head start in getting my AS200 up and
running.  I kept his instructions just in case someone else needed them.
-- 
Craig Oettle
Environmental Control Specialists, Inc.
http://www.ecsinconline.com/