Re: Redhat 6 Installer doesn't like VMS and LK411 keyboard question

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

> 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.

Since you booted from the CD you used the original ramdisk which seems
prone to Sig11 problems, usually when selecting packages, but this could
be another problem with it. You mention the system doesn't like floppies,
could it at least you one as a ramdisk floppy? then you could use the
updated image from http://www.redhat.com/errata
 
> 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.

Don't know, what's different about a LK411 keyboard?

--rdp

> Eric Ebinger
> 
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Rich Payne
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