Nikos Mouat (nikm@conjungi.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:03:15 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
You should try a different installer.. the one I used is somewhere on
dodds.net I think.. or one from linuxppc.org - there are some notes about
this on the ANS page on demonsys
nm
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Jean Robertson wrote:
> 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
>
> .........................................................
> Jean Robertson jean@cc.mcgill.ca
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>
>
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