terrac (terrac@outside.organic.com)
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:15:49 -0800 (PST)
So those are still the standing instructions.. darn I thought we had
gotten farther than that.
I wish I new more about linux to know how to build an instller.coff and
stuff.
One thing that bugs me is that I still don't know what kernal we are
supposed to be booting off. can someone please find a installer.coff that
works (internal SCSI and enet) and name it ans.coff or something so we
know the diff. too many files with the same name = bad karma IMHO.
All it comes down to is this. Some people have their ANS's up with linux
ppc.. and most of us don't. We should see what they have done, and try to
replicate it ourselves.. we are just missing a common step.
ALSO.. there is a distributor out there selling thses damn things with
linuxPPC on them.. what are they doing to get it on there? I WANNA KNOW!!!
argh.. thats my mountian dew induced rant for the month!
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Nikos Mouat wrote:
>
> Hi,
> The installer on hellfire locks up whenever I tried to use it and I've
> heard from a fair number of other people that experienced the same thing.
> I suspect you're seeing default catche messages? Try using the installer
> from linuxppc.org... I've heard that someone had some success on an ANS700
> with the g3installer when the normal one would not work. I tried burning
> an iso9660 CD but it never worked for me so maybe a mac format one would
> have better luck.
> You really need to do a magic dance in order to get the installer to work
> properly.. the best instructions that I've seen so far (Aaron deMello
> <aaron@demonsys.com> said he's putting together complete instructions this
> weekend I think) are (I had to leave the battery out for several hours
> for it to work for me):
>
> >From terrac@sharon.net Fri Dec 4 12:43:27 1998
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:14:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: TeRrAc <terrac@sharon.net>
> To: Linuxppc ANS support <linuxppc-ans-support@hellfire.dusers.drexel.edu>
> Subject: I did it.. heres the solution folx.
> Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:14:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: linuxppc-ans-support@hellfire.dusers.drexel.edu
>
> Steps to a brighter ANS future.. 1 catch tho it hangs patrway through the
> install.
>
> 1) unplug the damn thing.
> 2) depending if you have anything on your hard disk switch it with the
> tape drive if it does (so it don't boot from it)
> 3) take the battery out and press the little red button
> 4) leave the battery out for 10-20 minutes
> 5) when putting the battery back in hold down the red button
> 6) put the _NEW_ installer.coff from the dusers site if you want to try
> internal drive.. the old installer pre-ans if you want external drive.
> 7) turn it on... make sure the key is in the service position
> 8) make sure no data cd's are in the drive
> 9) type boot fd:installer.coff
> 10) try the installation.
>
> NOTE!!! if it fails start all over.. the pram has SOMETHING written to it
> to make successive floppy boots impossable.
>
> Hope this helps
>
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> > I started the process by using OF to boot from the installer.coff that is
> > at hellfire.dusers.drexel.edu/pub/linux. It is supposed to boot a 500 or
> > 700. I have 3 700/200s.
> >
> > The ANS seems to boot from installer.coff, but just drops me back to the OF
> > command-line instead of starting the installation process. I have Linux on
> > an HFS formatted external drive (ID=1).
> >
> > According to hellfire the installer.coff and vmlinux on their site will
> > recognize the ANS internal scsi bus and ethernet port, so I 'm not sure
> > what I am doing wrong. Are these the files I should be using?
> >
> > If I were to burn the RedHat directory onto a CD, do I need to it as a Mac
> > standard volume or ISO9600?
> >
>
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