hi all, yesterday I installed Woody on an Ultra1 (140 MHz, 128 MB, OpenBoot PROM 3.25, 1 * 2 GB disk, 1 * 4 GB disk, Yamaha CD-rewriter, floppy) and some things went wrong. I used the CD images from here: http://cdimage-unofficial.debian.net/
I used the sparc images from Feb 3. The CD could not boot, because it could not find the root file system (tried to mount it on 0b:00 if I remember correctly, not sure). I then used bootfloppies (old Ultra, so it works) and that worked, partly. First, I tried it all the way with floppies, but after loading root.bin and some config options I was asked to insert the rescue floppy again and it tried to extract the rescue image. This failed. Installing the base system from CD also did not work (CD could not be mounted). So I copied over everything from CD to disk and told the installed it should use a "previously mounted partition". So far, so good, the installer started to install. I had mounted my old Mandrake root partition all the time and after installing the packages nothing happened, except on the debug screen. Messages about which timezone or locale I wanted (not sure it went too fast) flew over the screen. Actually I had expected that message on the main screen, not on the debug screen. So, reinstall, but with my / unmounted. Everything went beautifully. SILO ran, everything was installed, rebooted and then I got this. boot: SProgram terminated ok> Apparently SILO didn't come past the "S". I tried a lot of stuff (trying some SILo options), but it didn't help. Eventually I booted the rescue floppy and set root=/dev/sd1 and the installation continued and now I've got a Woody on Sparc. I'm pretty much impressed by the installer and everything, because, apart from the problems, it went really smooth. But still, SILO is not working, which isn't nice. If you need more information that can help you I can get it (but the machine is at home, no connectivity there, so I cannot get it very fast). I am prepared to do more installs from CD and floppy until it works, it's just a test machine... armijn -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.nl.linux.org/~armijn/ | Penguin Power --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://nl.linux.org/ | Alles over Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
