Re: Noob intall issues

On Dec 10, 1:55 pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan D. Proulx) wrote:
Hi,

I've managed to boot a live demo system from the CD under VMware (5.5
linux) and Qemu, but I'm having a variety of trouble trying to get a
system actually installed.

I prefer real hardware, but that gives me the most trouble. I'm
trying to install (or even boot the live image) on a Sun Ultra20,
this is an AMD64 system with Nforce4 chipset (which claims to be
supported). One hurdle I just cleared is that the BIOS is mapping teh
CD to sdC0 rather than sdD0 that the menu expects. After substituting
that in what I think are the right places, the last being
local!#S/sdC0/data, it just spins the CD at high speed an whirrs for
15min. After that I shutdown as I couldn take the noise.

Second choice is VMware, I'm using 5.5.2 build-29772 under Linux.
After finding the "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl" I got the installer
to run, and things seemed to go well, but on reboot it hangs at "init:
starting /bin/rc", that one's been there for about an hour but still
no prompt.

I think I may be making progress with qemu. It seems the disk I fed
it is too small or so I surmise from the disk full errors on boot and
complaints of missing files. Though this is my least favorite option
as it's really slow even if I do get it going.

Any wisdom to share?

Thanks,
-Jon
In VMWare try moving your cdrom over to scsi, or completly removing
it.

Thanks
Bob
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