[SunRescue] Installing RedHat on a Sparc...

Lyndon Griffin lgriffin at BSD4US.ORG
Tue Jan 25 12:34:18 CST 2000


Missing the snow, actually...  I've been waiting for years for it to snow
in Delaware again.  A friend in grad school tells me she's got the
day off because of it.

<:)  Lyndon Griffin
http://www.bsd4us.org

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> >My experience with installing RedHat on 4c and 4m machines is that I have
> >much better luck if I use a "real" Sun CD-ROM drive. Using my 12X Plextor
> >(which is fine for Solaris, *BSD, etc) RH Linux installations fail, usually
> >right after the scsi bus is probed. If I change to my trusty old Sun drive
> >in the 411 case, the install works, albeit slowly. I've gotten RH on
> several
> >SS2's this way.
> >
> >YMMV
> >
> Hmmm.... OK I will give that a whirl later this afternoon.
> 
> Thanks Steve
> 
> Mike "wondering if the snow is gonna stop" N
> 
> 
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