Linux sparc install errors (SOLVED)

[Kurt Kessler]

Thanks Gerald and Duane. Although none of those
commands seemed to work for me, I gave up on Red Hat
6.2, and d/l'd Auroralinux. It gave me 'similar'
errors. I eventually tried just doing a text based
install and it worked first time. Now to just edit
that xf86 file. :)

Thanks Guys.

Kurt

--- Gerald Combs <gerald at ethereal.com> wrote:
> The names sda5 and sda6 refer to different
> partitions on the same drive
> (sda).  If sda is indeed your CD-ROM, you're going
> to have trouble
> partitioning it and mounting any swap devices on it.
>  :)
> 
> Which device is your hard drive?  In your dmesg
> output, you should see
> something like
> 
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=
> 17779500 [8681 MB] [8.7 GB]
> SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=
> 17779500 [8681 MB] [8.7 GB]
> 
> after the SCSI controller(s) is(are) detected.
> 
> BTW, you might want to check out the Aurora project:
> 
>     http://auroralinux.org/
> 
> They're creating a SPARC distribution based on Red
> Hat 7.3.  Red Hat
> 6.2 is a bit old, and I wouldn't be surprised if RH
> stopped releasing
> updates for it (if they haven't already).
> 
> You might have better luck with a Linux distribution
> that still supports
> SPARC.  NetBSD supports it as well.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Kurt Kessler wrote:
> 
> > Anyone on the list jack w/ sparcs? I am installing
> Red
> > Hat 6.2(sparc) from cd (was verified) and keep
> getting
> > the same errors:
> > 
> > "error creating swap on device sda6"
> > 
> > Then if i click 'ok', I get:
> > 
> > "error mounting sda5: device not configured"
> > 
> > I know that my cdrom is sda6, by looking at the
> > devalias at boot. I deleted all the hardware
> aliases
> > in the boot sequence and set it back to the
> defaults.
> > Im booting directly from cd. I have tried to
> manually
> > set up partition information, but get the same
> errors,
> > so I think it may have something to do with the
> > hardware config? Im sure this is something simple,
> but
> > i've never messed with sparcs b4 so its new to me.
> > Would appreciate any help.
> > 
> > Kurt
> > 
> > 
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by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

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