[SunRescue] Installing RedHat on a Sparc...

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 25 12:00:11 CST 2000


>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







More information about the rescue mailing list