On Friday 24 May 2002 05:58 am, you wrote: > Hi > > I've been trying to get Suse 7.3 installed on sparc system but with > no luck at all. > > I've downloaded the .iso for both sparc64 and sparc but in both cases > the installation aborts with the really helpfull message "An Error > occued during installation" > > I have tried the install on both an Ultra 10 and Ultra 60 with > similar results. Am I missing something obvious or is this unusual. > > After a weeks messing around I'm about to give up and try another > version! > > Any help would be more than welcome. > > Richard Lodge
Hi Richard, Don't give up ! I have installed on a dual CPU Ultra 60, works great, but I did have a couple of install issues. I too had an install error as above, I believe it was due to the way had tried to format one of the drives, I ended up letting the install program use an entire drive, with default partitions. (This worked) Next I was playing with silo / yast2 and messed up my configuration, tried to write to the mbr, instead of using /boot, this somehow failed, and was unable to boot. In attempting to reboot using cd-1, the install start-up hung at the same place each time, alt-F4 (I think it was f4) confirmed that the cd was encountering a read error. Thus inever made it to the option of 'boot installed system'. Either I had a bad cd-rw, or the iso image was corrupt. I belive the cd-rw was bad, it had been used many times before, and had failed a couple of times on the first install. To be safe I re-downloaded the iso, and burned on a cd=r, works great, no issues. If the install hangs for any long period, try switching the console, if there are errors you might be able to track it down. The only other item that needed post-install adjustment was setting up the acceleration for the graphics card. If you have an Elite3D M3/M6 card, you will need to use the Sun afb.ucode, and a couple of helper programs to load it. (took the afb.ucode off the Solaris 8 cd). It loads at boot (prior to starting the x-server). If you get to this point let me know, I could send the ucode & init, & rc code, or the url. George ps: also tried Mandrake - never made it out of the install program! -- George Auch | SuSE Linux 7.3 for SPARC Linux ns1 2.4.19-pre8 #1 SMP Wed May 22 10:00:09 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknown -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
