[ale] RH6.2 and Sparc

[Mark Cotner]

I'm still not sure what the problem was.  I finally ended up putting in the install
image on my x86 laptop and doing a net boot.  That worked fine and I did an ftp
install.  She's working great now.  Thanks for all the posts.  =)

Mark
Senior Network Engineer
RoadRunner High Speed Online

You aren't runnin' . . . 'less you're RoadRunnin'


Stephan Uphoff wrote:

> Just in case ....
>
> I hate to mention it .. but I recall that Solaris ftp does not
> automatically download using binary format even if connected to a unix server.
> If you downloaded in text mode (default) the binary images might have been
> mangled :-(
>
> Then again its a long time since I used ftp on Solaris.
>
> Did you verify the images ?
>
> > Hi all,
> > Has anyone had any luck with RH6.2 and a sparc?  Here's what I've tried
> > so far.  I'm not at all new to RH, but this'll be my first Sparc w/o
> > Solaris.  Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Here's what I've attempted so far.
> > wrote ISO to CD . . .
> > Won't boot because the /etc directory is corrupt in ISO??  I attempted
> > this several times with several vendor's CDs to no avail . . . same
> > error every time . . .
> >
> > FTP install??
> > not a chance . . . downloaded boot-net64.img . . . then had to rename
> > because rawrite doesn't understand more than 8 characters(way to go RH)
> > . . attempted boot floppy from eprom and I get SILIllegal Instruction .
> > . . I attempted the other images(boot32.img(knew that one wouldn't
> > work), and boot64.img) to no avail as well
> >
> > Tha machine . . .
> > Sun Ultra 1 167MHz
> > 256MB RAM and 2xSun 4.2G SCSI drives
> >
> > Tia,
> > Mark
> >
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