Re: RedHat 6.1 on DS10 with IDE via FTP fails

[Michael Werner <werner quantum ece ucsb edu>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Sven Crouse wrote:
> Has anybody successfully installed using the above configuration?  I
> have tried many attempts in different ways, but ultimately the problem
> is the same.
> 
> Typical scenario:
> 1-create BSD disk label and paritions per "Linux Installation and
> Configuration Guide for AlphaServer"
> 2-boot generic.img and ramdisk as included in 6.1 tree
> 3-configure network and retrieve base
> 4-select custom install
> 5-get to disk druid or whatever it is and enter mount points to
> partitions created beforehand
> 6-waits indefinately with blue screen at which point virtual console #3
> reveals
> .....
> ggoing to insmod raid0.o(path is NULL)
> going to insmod raid1.o(path is NULL)
> going to insmod raid5.o(path is NULL)
> Autopartitioning FAILED
> ......
> 
> Sven
> 
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This doesn't help much but at least you know there is *one* way which
has worked well anyway. I didn't use  a custom install since I had it
choke on me about 10 times for redhat 6.0 on x86. I successfully updated to
RedHat 6.1 on a DS10 with only an IDE HD and CDROM  (1 HD so no raid) by
burning the 6.1-alpha.iso myself and booting it using the SRM console. I bought
the DS10 from Compaq under their recent Linux ready online  deal so it already
had Redhat 6.0 installed. The update went very smoothly even though I had all
sorts of rawhide+6.0 combinations. The update didn't update only those RPM from
6.0 but all RPM's apparently (no custom update selected). Since I routinely boot
into 2.3.x kernels and use ipnatctl and iptables facility for IP masquerading
and filtering it was nice the update didn't touch those 2.3.x facilities. 

As an aside, I booted NetBSD 1.4.2 and ran it diskless on the DS10 today
so all you need is some machine that supports bootp,tftp and nfs and an a hour
or so of adjusting config files. In my case it took longer but I'm stupid. e.g.
the DS10 console manual said ew*0_mode = fast is fast SCSI so I took that to
mean it had nothing to do with wanting to use 100BaseTX which my NFS server
uses and its dhcpd wasn't in a talking mood last night. The basic fileset to
boot multiuser to a console is about 16MB gzipped if your bandwidth doesn't
allow 650MB downloads.
Hey, just a suggestion, no wizzy redhat logos but it works :-)