[SunRescue] Redhat 6.2 on IPX

[scohen - Stephen Cohen]

Mike Hebel asks "How the fsck did you get three drives into that case?"

I didn't!  Only the 200Mb is actually in the system unit.  A small case
holds a 5.25", 600Mb drive and an 8mm tape.  I moved the power and scsi
connectors from the tape to the 3rd drive (the 1Gb).

The case has a 3rd power connector (discovered sometime later) so, with a
scsi cable having 3 connectors, the tape can be returned into service.

Regards,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hebel [mailto:druaga at pmail.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:21 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Redhat 6.2 on IPX


>>I believe that my IPX with ROM v2.3 accepts only keyboard type 4.

My experience is that it sees the type 5 as a type 4 and things like the
power button don't work.

>>However, it installed properly with 32Mb (its now up to 64Mb) on a similar
sized
>>drive.

I too had no problem installing RH 6.2, Debian, or even NetBSD on my IPX
boxes with various sizes of drives and amounts of RAM.  The biggest problem,
besides a dusty floppy drive, was doing a small enough install of RH 6.2 to
fit on a 213meg drive.  I basically had to select individual packages into
obscurity until I got a setup that would install.

>>Currently, I've three drives in it, a 200Mb, 600Mb, and 1Gb.

How the fsck did you get three drives into that case?  I can see getting two
if you remove the floppy drive but three?  Did you have some low-profile
drives to work with?

Mike Hebel

-----Original Message-----
From: powerpcpro [mailto:macmanjim at powerpcpro.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:12 AM
To: Rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunRescue] Redhat 6.2 on IPX


I am trying to install linux on my IPX. It has 32MB of RAM, 480MB HD, cg6,
and ROM rev 2.3. Because I do not have a functioning keyboard(I bought one
off of ebay(type 5), but it must be a dud because I get a no keyboard
present error on boot up and it switches to ttya) and I am using a Link dumb
terminal and when it gets to the RedHat installer, I get a bunch of
scrambled characters. Is there a boot arg or setting I can change to get it
to display properly?
regards,
jim

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