Nikos Mouat (nikm@conjungi.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:49:59 -0700 (PDT)
Congradulations, you've joined a rather large club of ANS500 users with
the same problem. Some things that I'm going to try today are:
1) installing using a serial port console. There's been some speculation
that there's problems when using the vga port
2) install on an external disk using a different machine and then move the
disk over to the ANS
I tried unsucessfully yesterday to boot off a CDROM.. I'm not sure I had
the right device, but when I tried I got some strange messages.. I was
using an ISO9660 CD...
nm
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, M. Daniel Faile wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I am still trying to put Linux on my ANS500 I have copied the
> installer.coff form the FTP site (used fetch pulled it down as binary) I
> zap the P-Ram and boot into OF. I can get it to read the floppy but it
> dies with this output:
>
> fd: installer.coff loading XCOFF
> tsize=5AF8 dsize=3D4 bsize=15AC entry=500000
> SECTIONS:
> .text 00500000 00500000 00005AF8 00000124
> .data 00510000 00510000 000003D4 00005C1C
> .bss 005103D4 005103D4 000015AC 00000000
> initrd 00000000 00000000 00096508 000B9B28
> loading .text, done..
> loading .data, done..
> clearing .bss, done..
> coffboot starting
> initial ramdisk at c074c00 (736056 bytes)
>
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300
> ok
> 0 > _
>
> Does any of this look familiar to anybody? Is there another way to
> install Linux on an ANS500? My configuration is the standard ANS500
> nothing special has been added. I am willing to help any way possible.
> please help me...
>
> Daniel Faile
>
> --
> "Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is
> paved with melting snowballs." --Larry Wall
>
>
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