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From: Ebinger . Eric <EEbinger@drc.com>
To: 'axp-list' <axp-list@redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:24 AM
Subject: Redhat 6 Installer doesn't like VMS and LK411 keyboard question


>I have a melanin challenged Alphaserver 800 (a Digital Server 3305) with
>two scsi drives (1 4.1GB Seagate (DKA0 or /dev/sda) and 1 4.3GB IBM
>(DKA200 or /dev/sdb)).
>VMS is installed on DKA0 and I have now installed RedHat 6 on DKA200.
>
>After booting off of the CD (the system doesn't like the floppies) I
>started the install, went through fdisk partitioning (BSD style -
>including making sure that fdisk didn't extend any of the partitions
>past the end of the disk) and got to the screen that assigns filesystems
>to partitions.  After I assigned swap, /, /usr and /home to where
>I wanted them to go on sdb I tried to exit from the screen and got
>a message  that said that the partition table on sda was corrupt did
>I want to fix it or skip it.  I selected skip to avoid trashing the VMS
>install and was rewarded by a message about signal 11 followed by another
>one about now being a good time to restart the system.
>
>I finally was able to install RedHat by pulling the VMS drive (hot swap
>drives ARE nice), installing on the IBM drive (now, sda), modifying
>aboot.conf and fstab (sda->sdb), putting the VMS drive back in the
>system and rebooting.  Everything seems to work now except that aboot
>claims the boot device is /dev/sda2.  Is the aboot boot_device anything
>to worry about?
>
>Is RH6 installers inability to deal with a non-bsd/non-windows disk
>a known problem?  Or did I make a basic error somewhere?
>
>One last question: Is there anything I can/should do to use a LK411
>keyboard with Linux/Xfree86?  It seems to work but at 3AM I'm not sure
>I would have noticed much.
>
>Eric Ebinger
>
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