Installation fails! Big Ugly box...

[Happynetmonkey]

I can't install this at all!

Hardware: Ultra AXi, Quad 300 MHz (2 Meg US IIi) , 1 Gig RAM, SCSI drive, external SCSI CDROM. no graphics, two Zynx 10/100, 1 Happy meal 10/100

Issue 1 (easy) initial ramdisk fails if you use a directly connected keyboard for input but output through the parallel port. FIX: use only a term server to connect.

Issue two: The show stopper

Boot cdrom
choose ramdisk to load

it hangs during loading!

Last message is

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1100k freed
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
serial console detected. Disabling virtual terminals.
init started: BusyBox v0.60.3-pre (2002.01.22-00:19+0000) multi-call binary
R

Any body know what the 'R' goes to? Any developers get a chance to test on a system like this? I can e-mail the entire boot to anyone who wants it. I'd like to try Gentoo SPARC and this was the only box I could spare...

Any suggestions? I'm dead in the water here, I may have to install old, reliable SuSe 7.3 or heaven forbid...Solaris

[ftg888]

there seems to be a problem with the installer if you do not have a
local keyboard mouse and monitor hooked up.

i own a netra and the cd would hang exactly at the same point.

try

boot cdrom ramdisk init=/bin/sh

this will boot and get you to shell prompt....

----------the instructions that i clipped from these forums are


gentoo on sparc64 (netra T1)

iso 1.1

ramdisk init=/bin/sh

ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y broadcast z.z.z.z
route add default gw w.w.w.w

(net1=eth0, net0=eth1)



/sbin/devfsd /dev -np
/etc/init.d/rcS

fdisk
mkswap /dev/sda5
swapon /dev/sda5

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/cdrom/root-sparc64/proc
chroot /mnt/cdrom/root-sparc64
cd /sbin
./mkreiserfs
exit



cd /mnt
mkdir gentoo
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo
cd /mnt/gentoo
mkdir boot usr var
mount /dev/sda1 boot
mount /dev/sda4 usr
mount /dev/sda6 var

wget http://152.2.210.81/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/

releases/build/.1.4/sparc64/stage1-sparc64-1.4.tbz2

bzip2 -cd stage1-sparc64-1.4.tbz2 | tar xvf -
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
date -s
tar jxfp stage1-sparc64-1.4.tbz2
source /etc/profile
nano /etc/resolv.conf
emerge sync
emerge rsync

CHOST=sparc-unknown-linux-gnu

nano -w /etc/make.conf FEATURES="-sandbox"

cd /usr/portage
scripts/bootstrap.sh
export CONFIG_PROTECT=""
emerge system <<<<<--------------

emerge vanilla-sources
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make dep;make clean;make vmlinux;make modules

emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default

emerge vcron
rc-update add vcron default

emerge reiserfsprogs


cd /etc
ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels localtime
nano -w /etc/hostname
nano -w /etc/hosts
nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
rc-update add net.eth0 default
rc-update add sshd default

nano -w /etc/rc.conf
emerge silo
cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinux /boot
cd boot
gzip -9 vmlinux
nano -w /etc/silo.conf
mkdir /boot/etc
cp /etc/silo.conf /boot/etc
silo -C /boot/etc/silo.conf

nano -w /etc/make.conf FEATURES="sandbox"

---reboot---

[ftg888]

my netra has been running 24 hours now on the install.
and i am at emerge system....

I will post and let everyone know when and if install ins. works.

thanks

kevin

[ftg888]

and died around emerge system.

PUKE library problems...
dead...

I am wondering if it is worth it..
K.