[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora-sparc-user Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1

[Aijaz Baig]

Hello there,
What is CORONA for that matter?...IS it a separate release?...

Well, I have added another harddisk as the slave harddisk on this machine
but the CDROM is still the slave, as I do see a slave marking on the plastic
strip on the mouth of the bus connector.

I did this as I thought the original 10GB is too little for 'modern'
OSes...What I did was I dabbled with FreeBSD, netbsd finally settling for
'solaris 10' which I admit is kinda bloated for the U10. Subsequenty, the
slave harddisk was not detected by the solaris 10 installer as I suppose the
freeBSD label was seemingly unreadable by solaris 10 (the world's most
advanced OS..duh!!)

I managed to somehow delete the label on the primary HDD by first over
writing netbsd on it and then using a netbsd command to delete the
label..(as I knew how to do that but i was clueless about deleting disk
labels in freeBSD and still am)

So here I am, the secondary HDD still has that some BSD's label on it which
sol 10 doesn't understand. Plus I still have the CDROM connected at its
default configuration place.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Best Regards,
Aijaz Baig.

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> From: "Aijaz Baig" <aijaz.abaig at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] Installation Issues with ULTRA 10, OBP
>        3,31
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> Hello there,
>
> I am trying to install aurora linux build 2,99 on my U 10. The OBP has
> been
> upgraded to 3,31. I get past the booting screen until the point where it
> asks me from where would I like to install the distro on which I select
> CDROM.
>
> Then something unusual happens. It gives the following error message:
> *Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation type.*
> *Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk.*
> **
> Has it been unable to detect my CDROM? When I select the manual option, i
> see a list which does not look like the list of CDROM manufacturers.
> Rather
> it looks more like the list of Video card drivers.
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> And one last piece of information, I am using a text based installer.
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> Would love to hear from you guys,
>
> Aijaz Baig.
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> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:33:41 +1100
> From: mistamidget <mistamidget at cs.id.au>
> Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Installation Issues with ULTRA 10,
>        OBP 3, 31
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> I had the same problem on my U5 (which I don't have any more) but recall
> I might have had more success with Corona.
> Definitely got Aurora 2.0 running so you might like to try that.
> Also are your drives in the "standard" position i.e. hard disk as master
> on first ide controller and the cdrom as slave on the second controller.
>
>
> Aijaz Baig wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I am trying to install aurora linux build 2,99 on my U 10. The OBP has
> > been upgraded to 3,31. I get past the booting screen until the point
> > where it asks me from where would I like to install the distro on
> > which I select CDROM.
> >
> > Then something unusual happens. It gives the following error message:
> > *Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation
> type.*
> > *Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk.*
> > **
> > Has it been unable to detect my CDROM? When I select the manual
> > option, i see a list which does not look like the list of CDROM
> > manufacturers. Rather it looks more like the list of Video card drivers.
> >
> > And one last piece of information, I am using a text based installer.
> >
> > Would love to hear from you guys,
> >
> > Aijaz Baig.
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