Martin, I finally have one of the Netra's up and running. I ran into a small problem though. I have the issue with dmfe walking over tulip. I followed a couple articles on how to blacklist the driver to no avail.
I added dmfe to my blacklist.local and it seems to be ignored. I also created a file called dmfe-blacklist and added (both from samples) debian:/etc/modprobe.d# cat dmfe-blacklist blacklist dmfe debian:/etc/modprobe.d# cat blacklist.local blacklist dmfe I found one article that said I could disable it in the boot config under lilo, but I don't know where to begin on this. My background is with RedHat/rPath Linux using grub. Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Habets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Martin Habets > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 7:30 AM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Netra X1 install problem/oddity > > I remember seeing something like this as well. Seems like a bug in > partman. > The only way I got around it is to partition the disk using fdisk. > Getting fdisk on the machine was the tricky part, it was not on my > installation > media. I put the executable on another server, and copied that over > from > the install shell. > > -- > Martin > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is > today. - Martin Habets > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 04:27:57PM -0700, Gary W. Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been working to get Debian current installed on a Netra X1 from > a > > netboot over LOM. I first encountered the problem with the tulip > driver > > (requiring me to shell out, unload dmfe/tulip and then load tulip). > As > > is well on the network front. The problem is after it downloads all > of > > the install from ftp, it comes up and states that it cannot find any > > disks and asks me to load a driver. > > > > So I shell again and I can see /dev/hda in /proc/partitions (20gb). > I > > run partman from the shell and it sees no drives. Thinking that it's > > because of the former Sun partition, I dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/had > bs=1M > > count=1 to clear any partitions. I then run partman and it now sees > a > > 1MB disk drive. > > > > Any ideas on why this might be happening and how I can work around > it. > > I have several of these machines that I'd like to build out in the > next > > couple days for a project, but they just aren't cooperating. > > > > Gary > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
