On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:31:35PM -0500, bill hendrickson wrote: > I'm a regular redhat/ix86 user, and i'm vaguely aware of HP-UX, but i'd > like to give debian i try (i hear good things!). > > i have an HP-UX 712/60 that i want to install debian on, b/c linux rox and > deb seems to be the best way to get linux on it. I have a Seagate ST345X > (4GB) SCSI hard drive and a SCSI Plextor 2x CD-ROM attached to the HP's > on-board SCSI controller. The HP originally had a 2GB SCSI hard drive, but > i removed it to preserve the HP-UX 10.0 OS. The new 4GB drive is detected, > b/c i can see it at boot time from the admin menu, with 'sea'. This command > lists both the hard drive and the cdrom. So i 'boot scsi.2.0' to boot off > cdrom, and debian install starts cranking. w00t! i get to the point after > keyboard config, and it says "no hard drives were detected blah blah blah". > wtf? i scoured some debian boards on the net and found a few similar > messages. the solutions were to try booting with "vanilla" (no idea what > this would do) or "bf24" (which i guess boots the 2.4 kernel which i guess > might support my 4GB drive? and why would 2.2 be the default kernel, and > not 2.4?). is one of these right for my situation? i'd just try one of > these to see if they would work, but i don't know how - how do i call the > install w/these parameters? after i do 'boot scsi2.0', the install takes > right off. > > can anyone help?
you might try the debian-hppa list. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
