Jean Robertson (jean@darkstar.mcgill.ca)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 16:37:37 -0500 (EST)
Hello,
As the subject line says ...
I have an ANS 500/132, brand spanking new (well, not really).
It has nothing on the hard drives (there are two).
I have no problem booting the hellfire installer.coff file.
However, it stalls and dies at the moment of media choice [source of
the rpm's].
I set up a NFS server on a local area network, but it had a hard time
connecting.
The Redhat coff files are not doing the trick.
I have tried to boot the hellfire vmlinux.coff with boot options like ...
root=/dev/fd0 rw load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
thinking that I might actually be able to partition and format the hard
drives. However it seems that the bootloader does not want to pass on the
boot options. Hmmmmm.
I am hoping that the AUI ethernet connection might actually be able
to connect to the local net and it seems to work ... but not really
doing anything productive.
One option was to install AIX (which came with the box), get that to
use the ethernet connection, download the Redhat RPM's onto a local drive
and intall Linux from there. But this seems to me a longish way to get
there.
Any other ideas?
The regular RedHat installers all failed with a
"unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid." error.
As I was not originally a Mac-type person, I have learnt far more about
the boot loader on this machine than I really wanted to.
I have not seen the "irregularity" of the booting process that was
described in the "Installing Linux-PPC on an Apple Network Server 500/700"
at
http://www.demonsys.com/ans/
Booting always happened exactly the same way each time. It either failed the
first time or succeeded the first time.
Thanks for the read-through,
Jean
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Jean Robertson jean@cc.mcgill.ca
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