Re: installation trouble

[Xiaozhou Qiu <xq mars iol unh edu>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Wysong Richard C SrA 85 GP/CP wrote:

> Okay. After lurking way in advance, I finally got a copy of RH 6 for alpha
> and I've been having some problems. First of all, I was wondering if there
> was a decent installation guide. Second, I thought I'd share my problems:
> 
> 1.	When I install any additional packages, I get 'failed to create
> keyboard configuration: no such file or directory'

How do you install addition packages? Why not just use rpm?

> 2.	After installing without any extras, it reboots, goes straight to a
> MILO that gives me xx seconds to do whatever, after which, it looks for
> something on the floppy which it doesn't find, so I end up with the milo
> prompt.
> 

Did your set up booting  options correctly in  AlphaBIOS? You may refer to 
AlphaBIOS Howto or come to http://www.iol.unh.edu/linux/alpha for a MILO
guide.



> After I didn't know what to put at the milo prompt, I thought I'd check
> things out from NT, and my NT kernel was corrupt. At that point, I had to go
> to work, so I didn't have time to mess with it. But I thought I'd regroup
> here before the next battle.
> 
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