I'm finally logged in on the install CD (2000-12-08 03:39:37) and have zeroed
out the 2 2gig drives (bye bye OpenBSD, for now). That worked. One of the
drives wasn't recognized by fdisk, but I managed to configure it via custom.
I partitioned the first drive with swap and one / partition, and the second
drive to be /home.
These are the problems I'm running into already:
1. init reports ids 1,2,3 are respawning too fast. Apparently /dev/tty[1-4]
cannot be opened if the console is serial.
In setup:
2. Character output is really messed up, but I suspect this is the fault of
minicom, which messes up things on other stuff, too. I'm looking for a
better term program (but not kermit, please) for the Intel box I am using
to connect to the Sparc serial console. Something that is very transparent
and captures 100% transparent would be preferred.
3. I get messages about errors on /dev/tty4. Probably same issue as #1.
4. CDROM scan does not find the CDROM in /dev/scd0. So I manually mounted
it at /cd and proceeded with pre-mounted directory.
5. Once I get through all the setup input and proceed to install, I get the
following output. Note that some characters are garbled and I think that
minicom and/or the serial port is at fault for that.
| You cHan't run pkgtoo the rootdisk until you've mounted your Linux
| partitions beneath /mnt. Here are some examples of this:
|
| If your root partition is /dev/hda1, and is using ext2fs, you would type:
| mount /dev/hda1 /mnt -t ext2
|
| Then, supposing your /usr partition is /dev/hda2, you must do this:
| mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/usr -t ext2
|
| Please mount your Linux partitions and then run pkgtool again.
|
| /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
| /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
| /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
| /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
| /usr/lib/setup/setup: cannot create /mnt/etc/fstab: directory nonexistent
| #
I could not mount /dev/sda1 manually, but after I formatted it manually,
then I could mount it. Perhaps the errors trying to output to tty4 were
causing mke2fs to fail prematurely or not being run at all.
I symlinked /dev/tty[1-4] to /dev/null. This seemed to allow formatting
to work for the first drive. However, when it went to format the 2nd
drive, the system went crazy alternating between reading the CDROM and
doing some burst if I/O on a HD. Killing setup didn't stop that and soon
the whole machine froze up. BREAK dropped to PROM prompt and I rebooted.
Possibly this wasn't actually format, but may have been getty dealing
with my symlinks.
I'll pick up on this later today. I may try to change inittab to remove
the entries for tty[1-3] and rebuild the color.gz and ISO and see if that
makes a difference.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | phil-nospam@ipal.net | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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