On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:21, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote: > Sergey & Cristian, > > thanks for the hints. I have a bunch of CD drives, including SCSI. Same > thing happened way back, installing RH 7.1 from factory stamped CDs. > > An 8X Cd drive did the job that time. I'll try some of those tricks. Personaly i bought for ~30USD an old caddysh plextor and an old 4x writer scsi-matsushita unit. Those never failed anymore, indeed those are _really_ good quality units ! My PWS Miata camed equiped with lite-on IDE wich from my experience is a sucky sh*t, even if its brand new ... /cristian > > jn > > -- > Allidaho LLC (http://www.allidaho.com) > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: Sergey Tikhonov <tsv solvo ru> > To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list redhat com> > Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:02:58 +0300 > Subject: Re: Alpha Core 3 on XP 1000 > > > Dialup Jon Norstog wrote: > > > > >To the list: > > > > > >I downloaded AC3 last weeek, md5sums OK, etc and burned the disks. Couldn't > > >get them to work on either an xp1000/EV67 or a PWS600. The graphic installer > > >hangs at various places ... i changed CD drives on the XP, some improvement. > > >Burned a new set of CDs on a better machine, still can't run the install. > > > > > >The installer hangs especially when it starts the install, but other problems > > >rise when you get to the point of choosing install packages. No list of > > >programs or packages comes up. Etc. Etc. > > > > > >I got the setup from ftp.alphacore.info, I assume its good, atleast the > > >MD5sums are OK. > > > > > >I know the distro was built on a PWS and it should run like clockwork. I will > > >try a text install toningt and see if things work better .. > > > > > > > > Yes, I did two full installs (gui and text) on PWS. But I used nfs > > install (tired of reburning of CDs and getting read errors from them) > > . The missing list of packages is known problem just install what > > ever it installs by default and yum necessary packages later. I > > really didn't want to spend a lot of time trying to fix it, due my > > little experience in python and really hard environment for > > debugging of installer. :( So, if you can use nfs install its even > > faster. :) > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Sergey Tikhonov > > > > Head, R&D department > > Solvo Ltd. > > Saint-Petersburg, Russia > > http://www.solvo.ru > > tsv solvo ru > > > > _______________________________________________ > > axp-list mailing list > > axp-list redhat com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > _______________________________________________ > axp-list mailing list > axp-list redhat com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list > -- Balint Cristian (Red Hat Release Engineering Team)
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