On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Rob Davis wrote:
> I'm having difficulty installing Linux on my A5000. I have a copy of the FTP
> site on CD R/W that I've mounted on the Linux box... However, the A5000
> installer doesn't want to mount the CD-rom by NFS (says permission denied)...
> It does however work with Omniclient.
Standard NFS problems. What directory have you put the CD-ROM in?
Paste your /etc/exports file so we can see if there might be
an obvious glitch. Oh, and never trust OmniGrot.
> I've tried the long laborious copying over and installing off the hard drive
> method, but that gets stuck half way through by saying Rebooting System and
> freezing.
What Ethernet cards (if any) do you have in this machine? Freezes
on attempting rebooting is very common with ARM Linux -- just hit
the power switch.
> What install and supplemental disks should I be using? The kernel I have is
> 2.0.31, I have an Ether 3 ethernet card. The Intel Box is RedHat 6.0. Any
> ideas?
Oh, you have an Ether3. A podule version, I guess? Try using
the latest kernel/root you can find -- but *make* sure they match
in date. I would advise you to do a complete install over NFS,
so that the supplemental disk is read from a directory mounted
from the PC.
Oh, and how much HD space have you got on this A5000? You might
want to consider trying root-over-NFS.
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