[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora 2.98 CD install , CD Not Found .

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

 	Hello Spot ,

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 14:01 -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:26 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>>
>>>> I have an SS20 with two processors.  The 2.99 image boots, and loads
>>>> the esp driver.  The installer then searches for a CD to install  from
>>>> and fails, spitting my CD out.
>>>>
>>>> Did any one manage to get to the bottom of this?
>>>
>>> So... this is almost certainly a failure of the esp driver on sparc32.
>>>
>>> At some point, I'll try to debug this on my sparc32 systems, but
>>> admittedly, its low on my priority list.
>>  	How easy/hard would it be to create a mini-cd image with just the
>> necessary items to get to the point of 'loading esp driver' but without
>> the window fluff ?  Or might there be a boot: option to use 'pure' ascii ?
>>  	If we could see the error(s) (if any) .  seeing them might make it very
>> easy to debug .
>
> Yeah, unfortunately, none of that code exists, and it isn't simple to
> put together.
>
> What I would do in this case is get 2.98 (or if that fails, 2.0)
> installed, update everything to corona, then try to reboot into the
> corona kernel. It should fail exactly the same way as it does in
> anaconda, and we'd get more debugging, and be able to pass module
> options to esp in a far simpler manner.
 	Ok ,  I finally have 2.0 on the LX .  I do not have sufficient
 	network bandwidth to do a 'yum update' & that poor lil'LX just
 	doesn't have enough ummpphhh to get out of it's own way .

 	That said ,  I can put all of the 2.99 (of 29-Aug) in a
 	directory just as Charles suggested from which I was able to
 	get 2.0 installed from .  Or even nfs share the whole bloody
 	DVD .  Either way would work for making the rpm's available .
 	But how do I do a yum/??? update from a local source ?
 	As far as I can tell the 2.99 dvd iso is not yummified .
 		Tia ,  JimL

(*) Charles Tryon <baggins at rochester.rr.com>
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