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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: installation problem
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In article <C2L1KA.GMp@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes:
>I just got the bindist, etcdist, and bootable+tools stuff from wuarchive.
>I am having a tough time installing things. I have a Dell 486D/50 with
>2 IDE drives (230M+200M), WD ethernet card, and a proaudio spectrum 16
>in the machine. I boot from diskette and 1/2 the time it sees the
>ethernet card (we0) and half it doesn't. Actually it sees it every
>time I reset, but never if I Ctrl-alt-del or if the installation procedure
>causes a reboot...
The times it doesn't see the ethernet card are the result of the card
being in an active state and therefore failing probe. On a cold boot,
all cards are reset by a real bus reset, and thus the card is in the
known state expected by the probe routine -- which then finds the card.
>Anyhow, I have all the dist files on my sun. I am able to ftp to the
>sun and get the bindist files. Extract works, but when it asks me
>for the machine name, I type "dell" and it prints an error message:
>"[ `]' not found"
This is a result of a typo in the post-extract shell script. You can ignore
it, or you can copy out the remainder of the shell script and run it by
itself.
>then I ftp to the sun and get the etcdist files, and ftp hangs after
>approximately 40-50 of the 97 files. I tried leaving the machine
>alone for 10 minutes, but the machine is dead. ^C just prints ^C,
>^Z just prints ^Z, and so on. It is repeatable, and happens every
>time.
This is the result of "the big memory problem". Use one of the patched
kernels in unofficial (agate.berkeley.edu and mirror sites) that takes care
of this problem for you rather than using the distribution dist.fs or
fixit.fs.
>Also, df shows me only one of my drives (the 230M).
You have to disklabel, mkfs, and mount the drive for it to show up from
df, which lists the available space on mounted drives. Before you do this,
you have to get a patched kernel or apply the patchkit so that the hard
disk driver can handle two drives on a controller (or multiple controllers).
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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