Hi, I've managed to boot a live demo system from the CD under VMware (5.5 linux) and Qemu, but I'm having a variety of trouble trying to get a system actually installed.
I prefer real hardware, but that gives me the most trouble. I'm trying to install (or even boot the live image) on a Sun Ultra20, this is an AMD64 system with Nforce4 chipset (which claims to be supported). One hurdle I just cleared is that the BIOS is mapping teh CD to sdC0 rather than sdD0 that the menu expects. After substituting that in what I think are the right places, the last being local!#S/sdC0/data, it just spins the CD at high speed an whirrs for 15min. After that I shutdown as I couldn take the noise. Second choice is VMware, I'm using 5.5.2 build-29772 under Linux. After finding the "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl" I got the installer to run, and things seemed to go well, but on reboot it hangs at "init: starting /bin/rc", that one's been there for about an hour but still no prompt. I think I may be making progress with qemu. It seems the disk I fed it is too small or so I surmise from the disk full errors on boot and complaints of missing files. Though this is my least favorite option as it's really slow even if I do get it going. Any wisdom to share? Thanks, -Jon
