Re: cheating the rh6.0 installer on a jensen

[Tom Everett <teverett home com>]

Is the installer able to install to a BSD disk at all?  I ask b/c I had a
similar setup to that described earlier and chose a 900MB partition (BSD
partition table) as root in the installer.  I then chose the packages
I wanted and started the install.  The redhat installer formatted my
paritions and then hung up prior to installing any rpms.

pressing alt-f5 shows that it was able to format my root partition, and
alt-f4 shows a whole 6 iterations on

<3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_cp437, errno = 0

I seem to have discovered the alpha-linux BSOD.  Perhaps the BSD partition
is at fault?


Sebastian Moeller wrote:

> erik@avalon.harvard.edu wrote:
> > 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???)
> No Sir, this will not work. The jensen is not able to boot its kernels
> from fat partitioned disks. It is possible though to use your bsd disk
> as home of the kernel and another fat-disk for all the rest including
> "/". Once the system is up you always can cp stuff back to your bsd disk
> (the installer will probably not work, but then again you won't need it
> on a running system). Bsd disk in this setup must contain aboot as well.
> Oh one remark to your partitioning: Using a small partition (e.g. ~64
> mb) to hold various kernels, is a real advantage if you want to try
> different distributions and or kernels at the same time.
>
> Good luck
>         Sebastian Möller
>
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