RE: Jensen installation this time for good

["Hoover, Tony" <hoover sal ksu edu>]

If you are using ARC/milo to boot, you should be using "DOS style"
partitions, to use BSD partitions, you should use SRM/aboot.
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Tony Hoover, Network Administrator 
KSU - Salina, College of Technology
mailto:hoover@sal.ksu.edu

"Wash Uffitzi drive me to Firenze"
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> From: 	erik@avalon.harvard.edu[SMTP:erik@avalon.harvard.edu]
> Reply To: 	axp-list@redhat.com
> Sent: 	Monday, September 27, 1999 9:31 AM
> To: 	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: 	Re: Jensen installation this time for good
> 
> 
> Sorry I can't give specific help on the SCSI problem, but it does sound
> like a cabling/termination issue... 
> 
> I used the excellent compilation of directions on the khubla.com site
> below and have gotten the RedHat installer running.  Now I'm stuck at the
> step where you assign partitions.  I used minlabel to make 4 partitions:
> 1: 4meg for booting
> 2: 640 meg into which to install linux
> 3: 100 meg for /var
> 4: 256 meg for swap (I have 128 meg installed in my Jensen)
> 
> I tell the installer to use fdisk, fdisk tells me that there are is no
> DOS style partition table, I tell fdisk to use BSD style partitions it
> sees all of my partitions (as outlined above).  But when I drop back to
> the installer (quit fdisk) it still doesn't see any partitions.
> 
> So what should I do? blow away the BSD partition table and created "DOS
> style" partitions to proceed with the install? (doesn't sound right but
> seems the only option???)
> 
> Thanks to all those who have worked out the booting of the Jensen!!!
> 
> --erik evensen
> 
> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Tom Everett wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Well, I have it starting the RedHat 6 installer.
> > 
> > I use the jensen2.img from Sebastian's FTP, and the ramdisk.img from the
> RedHat
> > 6 updates.
> > 
> > I burnt the floppies with:
> > 
> > dd if=FILENAME of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> > 
> > I then started the kernel from aboot with
> > 
> > 0/a load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0
> > 
> > It asked for the ramdisk floppy, read it and brought me to the
> installer.  I'll
> > be putting these instructions and copies of the needed files on my page
> at
> > 
> > http://www.khubla.com/jensen.html
> > 
> > The problem now it that I'm trying to install from an install set on an
> externel
> > SCSI HD.  RH6 sees the disk (FAT32) and then proceeds to lets me choose
> my root
> > partition on my internal disk.  However, when it starts looking for
> packages on
> > the SCSI HD, i get a PILE of i/o errors (they fill my screen) and a
> little
> > message about how a perl script failed due to not finding files.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience installing from an external HD, or
> should
> > I break down and actually pay money for a proper install CD?
> > 
> > Sebastian Moeller wrote:
> > 
> > > Tom Everett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well, your new image seems to work.  However, after it loads my RAM
> disk it
> > > > crashes with a HALT error.
> > > >
> > > > The command I used to burn my ramdisk image (RH6) was
> > > >
> > > > dd if=ramdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> > > Hi Tom!
> > > I usually use "dd if=ramdisk.img of /dev/fd0 ibs=512 bs=512
> count=2880".
> > > (Possibly cat ramdisk.img>/dev/fd0 will work also.) There is an
> upgrade
> > > for the rh6.0 ramdisk on updates.readhat.com (also on
> > > ftp.alphalinux.org), maybe the original one is rotten.
> > > Just for my curiosity are you able to boot 1/2.2.12.gz or 0/a?
> > >
> > > Good luck
> > >         Sebastian
> > > BTW: I think it really is a good idea to reserve a small partition for
> > > boot kernels on your bsd disk, as it possible to change to different
> > > kernels without risking to ruin your working initial kernel (0/a). I
> > > figured out why my previous boot image did not work, the bootlx used
> was
> > > slightly out of date...
> > >
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