[lug] on a Sparc 5?

[Harris, James]

Try running an NFS install.  If your floppy still works, try booting from
the floppy install disks, otherwise you can do the CD install and pick NFS
if you choose the expert option.  It seems to work the best.

I was able to caox my Sparc 10 into doing a CD install, which it is still
running, but my 5 was always very quirky.  I rebuilt it several times using
NFS and each time it installed fine.

Good luck!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt James [mailto:matuse at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 17:13
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] on a Sparc 5?
> 
> 
> I am attempting to install Linux 6.2 on a Sun Sparc 5.
>  I downloaded the CD images and made the cd's.  Here
> is what i get when I go to install.  I boot from the
> cd - installation comes up - I tell it to
> automatically partition the drives - put in the user
> name and password - it goes to format the drives -
> gets to the file system drive and crashes.  I get -
> error mounting sdb1.  Invalid argument.  then another
> window that says - exception occurred - and then a
> whole bunch of gibberish.  So I tried it again and
> again  - I also get this message - Install exited
> abnormally - received signal 4 - sending termination
> signals - and the machine shuts down.  I'm looking for
> someone who may have had a similar experience and know
> what to do about it.  I have had solaris 2.5.1
> installed on the machine and it ran so the machine is
> good.  Any suggestions or comments would be helpful. 
> I am attempting to make this a web/ftp server so any 
> suggestions in that department would be nice as well. 
> Thanks in advance.
> Matt
> 
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