* pre-R5 installation
@ 1998-12-13 13:57 G. Laurès
1998-12-15 23:07 ` Ron Nelson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: G. Laurès @ 1998-12-13 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Liste LinuXppc/dev
Hi everybody, I mail you all cause I have probs about a pre R5 installation...
The following assumes that I've managed to boot properly the installer,
including second-stage with the 2nd floppy, and t I tried all of this
with 2.1.125 from R4 installation @ dev.linuxppc.org and last 2.1.130
from BenH.
First I noticed that DHCP configuration for ftp install doesn't work
(it's over a motorola cybersurf cable modem), I got a "SIGCAUGHT" or
whatever when choosing this option, I don't exactly remember.
Second, ftp installation doesn't work with fixed IP information either
: it doesn't get ns information, or can't log into server with the
correct IP address, it seems that no packets can get out of it. Ping on
it from another machine (my PBG3 with masquerading software) do work
though (???????).
So I tried an HD install... as said Martin Costabel, I had to put all
the files on an ext2 partition (fine, I had a 2GB hd lying with R4 on it).
Third, server nor workstation types of install work, they get you into
a loop with SCSI adapters and Macintosh-like partitionned hd stuff and
then on server/workstation/custom rpm choices.
But here begin strong problems : it complains about around 35 rpm
missing (I guess they are not ready yet, I don't care for now, I would
add some if only I could compile them...), then installs rpms (I choosed
very basic install, keeping all default but PPP-dialup), and then I got
a lot of warning like "execution of XXX script failed". Well, it fails
for initscripts, egcs, binutils, make, egcs, timeconfig, pam/pamconfig :
all that type of non-useful things if you see what I mean...
Then I got panics during time configuration, just after network conf,
and I have to make a hard reset here.
Of course it doesn't boot, warning for being unable to open an
initial console and to find init stuff -> kernel panic, you have 180
seconds to type what's on screen...
Of course I redownloaded twice of all these critical rpms, I got the
same warnings. I'll try a third time tommorrow just to be sure...
I hope you'll see in there some obvious mistake I'm to tired to see by
myself... Thanks to anybody who could help, I'm really stuck here.
Gom
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* Re: pre-R5 installation
1998-12-13 13:57 pre-R5 installation G. Laurès
@ 1998-12-15 23:07 ` Ron Nelson
1998-12-18 8:00 ` Frank H. Pierce
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ron Nelson @ 1998-12-15 23:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: laures; +Cc: Liste LinuXppc/dev
G. Laurès wrote:
>
> Hi everybody, I mail you all cause I have probs about a pre R5 installation...
>
> The following assumes that I've managed to boot properly the installer,
> including second-stage with the 2nd floppy, and t I tried all of this
> with 2.1.125 from R4 installation @ dev.linuxppc.org and last 2.1.130
> from BenH.
>
> First I noticed that DHCP configuration for ftp install doesn't work
> (it's over a motorola cybersurf cable modem), I got a "SIGCAUGHT" or
> whatever when choosing this option, I don't exactly remember.
>
> Second, ftp installation doesn't work with fixed IP information either
> : it doesn't get ns information, or can't log into server with the
> correct IP address, it seems that no packets can get out of it. Ping on
> it from another machine (my PBG3 with masquerading software) do work
> though (???????).
>
> So I tried an HD install... as said Martin Costabel, I had to put all
> the files on an ext2 partition (fine, I had a 2GB hd lying with R4 on it).
>
> Third, server nor workstation types of install work, they get you into
> a loop with SCSI adapters and Macintosh-like partitionned hd stuff and
> then on server/workstation/custom rpm choices.
>
> But here begin strong problems : it complains about around 35 rpm
> missing (I guess they are not ready yet, I don't care for now, I would
> add some if only I could compile them...), then installs rpms (I choosed
> very basic install, keeping all default but PPP-dialup), and then I got
> a lot of warning like "execution of XXX script failed". Well, it fails
> for initscripts, egcs, binutils, make, egcs, timeconfig, pam/pamconfig :
> all that type of non-useful things if you see what I mean...
>
> Then I got panics during time configuration, just after network conf,
> and I have to make a hard reset here.
>
> Of course it doesn't boot, warning for being unable to open an
> initial console and to find init stuff -> kernel panic, you have 180
> seconds to type what's on screen...
>
> Of course I redownloaded twice of all these critical rpms, I got the
> same warnings. I'll try a third time tommorrow just to be sure...
>
> I hope you'll see in there some obvious mistake I'm to tired to see by
> myself... Thanks to anybody who could help, I'm really stuck here.
>
> Gom
I just wanted to chime in and let it be known that I am getting the
exact same problems during install with my Powerbase here.. If anyone
has a alternate install procedure please let me know I would love to be
running the new glibc..
Thanks,
Ron Nelson
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* Re: pre-R5 installation
1998-12-15 23:07 ` Ron Nelson
@ 1998-12-18 8:00 ` Frank H. Pierce
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Frank H. Pierce @ 1998-12-18 8:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Ron Nelson; +Cc: linuxppc-dev
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Hi. I've installed pre-R5 on a PowerCenterPro by first doing a minimal
install of the R4 release and then installing the R5 rpms by hand. I guess
this is not a good solution but since my old second hd from a centris 610
crashed I thought what the h... It looks like it works fine. Some of the
rpms gave errors about not being able to execute the script but forcing it
with rpm -U --nodeps --force --noscripts I managed to squeeze them in
somehow:->
It boots fine with bootX and my old 2.1.130 kernel from my hd connected to
the Adaptec scsi card. X works with Windowmaker and egcs looks like it
compiles fine (still get seg.faults but that's nothing new for me)
The only problem I have is that imake and therefore xmkmf does not work.
This has given me a problem compiling xpm. If any one has compiled
libXpm.so.* I would love to get the Makefile you used. That might make
Netscape work to?
Frank Holton Pierce
frank.pierce@hedb.uib.no
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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Hi. I've installed pre-R5 on a
PowerCenterPro by first doing a minimal install of the R4 release and
then installing the R5 rpms by hand. I guess this is not a good
solution but since my old second hd from a centris 610 crashed I
thought what the h... It looks like it works fine. Some of the rpms
gave errors about not being able to execute the script but forcing it
with rpm -U --nodeps --force --noscripts I managed to squeeze them in
somehow:->
It boots fine with bootX and my old 2.1.130 kernel from my hd connected
to the Adaptec scsi card. X works with Windowmaker and egcs looks like
it compiles fine (still get seg.faults but that's nothing new for me)
The only problem I have is that imake and therefore xmkmf does not
work. This has given me a problem compiling xpm. If any one has
compiled libXpm.so.* I would love to get the Makefile you used. That
might make Netscape work to?
</fontfamily>
Frank Holton Pierce
frank.pierce@hedb.uib.no
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