On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote:
> Nick Baker wrote:
> > I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to
> > completion on a dual processor Intel
> > OR840 motherboard-based machine.
> > If you think you can help I can send the details.
>
> Let's here more details, esp. where during the install it has problems.
>
> I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I have
> found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch just to
> get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and jumpers didn't
> work the way the manual said. ;-(>
> I have two Intel dual MBs running but they are older than yours, and I have
> found Intel boards to be a bit of a pain. My dual Xeon was a bitch just to
> get both processors running and at full speed. The bios and jumpers didn't
> work the way the manual said. ;-(
> As a bit of a side note ... The only times I have had installs hang during
> the installation was due to bad hardware, especially RAM....
>
> Just a thought.
Thanks for your help, Kevin.
Here's the congfiguration:
Intel OR840, dual p!!! 800,
1 gig Intel approved ram,
IBM (adaptec 7881U) scsi adapter,
50 gig Seagate U2W drive,
Sony CRX140E 8/4/32 CDRW,
ATI Radeon 7500 AGP video,
on-board NIC,
on-board audio,
external KVM sw to share video, mouse, keyboard with my IBM server.
I want to set this machine up as a graphics workstation, and attempt to wean
myself from 14 years of Photoshop/Mac addiction and and move my work to
GIMP/Linux. I am also trying to develop an inexpensive office network and
machine configuration package for non-profits. (Ironically, the cheap
hardware has been less trouble !)
Witht the OR840, have been through several sets of non-Intel-approved memory
and also had originally tried to set this up with dual p!!! 933s using
slockets, never could get that set up to even get to the bios >:-( Finally
broke down and got all Intel approved parts, and now it configures the SCSI
card and the Intel bios just fine.
OK. With the "approved" config, I have tried to install both 8.0 and 8.2,
but they both do the same thing. The install runs smoothly through the
partioning (root, home, usr, var) to the package instal. Near the end of
installing whatever packages I have chosen, the install hangs either with a
frozen mouse/keyboard or a blank screen.
Progress!! this morning I was able to install the "truely minimal" option and
can get to the command prompt.
I then tried to upgrade installing KDE, but it hung as usual in the upgrade.
When I restarted, there were a bunch of repairs requested, which I approved.
I was then able to boot the minimal system again.
My current thought is that this is a video/X problem, and have been rummaging
about the ATI and Xfree sites for help, but have not found any joy there yet.
I also suspect that the minimal system is utilizing only one of the
processors.
Later;;;
Now that I have the minimal system running I've been trying to get additional
pieces installed. The installer thinks Xfree is installed, but if I try to
startx from the console I get:
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
giving up .
xinit: No such file or directory. (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process. (errno 3): Server error.
then it dumps me back into the shell.
If I run the installer now, with no packages selected for install, it hangs
while the "preparing bootloader" message is on the screen.
This is long enough for now...
TIA for info and advice,
Nick
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