On Dec 10, 1:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan D. Proulx) wrote: > 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 In VMWare try moving your cdrom over to scsi, or completly removing it.
Thanks Bob
