Re: still having major install problems

[Alan Young <ayoung teleport com>]

Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> 
> Hello all.. I'm at a major stuck point still, with installation on our
> AlphaServer 4100.  I have gotten to the point where it asks me for my
> network info (IP, netmask, primary dns, etc) and after that, it tells me
> "SIOCADRR: FILE ALREADY EXISTS" and won't let me pass.  I'm getting pretty
> desperate at this point.  We need this machine operational ASAP, and if
> we can't get Linux to work soon, Linux will get scrapped and go with DEC
> Unix...   and I don't want that.. because 1) It makes Linux look bad and
> 2) The tools I normally work with aren't on DEC Unix.

I had this too.  It means someone on your network has the same IP that you
are trying to assign to the machine you are installing on.  In short, pick
a new IP address. :-)

Wait till you get to the prompt when it wants to setup swap and you
have not assigned a swap partition (I use a page file to share space
with NT when it is not running) or to the prompt where it must absolutely
read the kernel off your boot disk (I booted the kernel off the hard
disk)...

Alan