Hello, I am Philip Griffiths, I work at the University of Ulster. As well as being a Research Fellow working on materials to achieve greater energy efficiency in buildings. I also have eight years experience administering a cluster of Sparc workstations and servers.
We are working with a group of researchers in Germany who use SuSE and so that we can exchange data/software without having to re-compile we have decided to use one of our older machines (an SS20) as a test bed for linux. I downloaded the ISOs for sparc machines and burnt the CDs without any problem. I then booted the SS20 from the CD, again no problem and followed the installation procedure. I started to get error messages with regard to partitioning of the Hard drives (one 1GB internal, one 9GB SCSI ext.). I sought some advice and came across the messages on this forum about using fdisk. I followed that advice and managed to avoid the error messages when the machine came to the formating stage of the installation. HOWEVER, now the installation hangs at the formating stage without any error message. The interface still functions as I can click the 'Abort Installation' button, but it doesn't seem to do anything. The only thing left is a STOP-A. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a workaround? regards Philip Griffiths -- Dr Philip Griffiths, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland tel - +44 28 9036 8238; fax - +44 28 9036 8239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
