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

Tue Mar 11 14:56:17 EDT 2008

Suggest you read 
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mas01r/aurorafaq.html#SlowCDROM at 
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mas01r/aurorafaq.html

Aijaz Baig wrote:

> 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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>       1. Installation Issues with ULTRA 10, OBP 3,31 (Aijaz Baig)
>       2. Re: Installation Issues with ULTRA 10, OBP 3, 31 (mistamidget)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:19:06 +0100
>     From: "Aijaz Baig" <aijaz.abaig at gmail.com
>     <mailto:aijaz.abaig at gmail.com>>
>     Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] Installation Issues with ULTRA 10, OBP
>            3,31
>     To: aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org
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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.
>
>     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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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:33:41 +1100
>     From: mistamidget <mistamidget at cs.id.au <mailto:mistamidget at cs.id.au>>
>     Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Installation Issues with ULTRA 10,
>            OBP 3, 31
>     To: Aurora user discussion
>     <aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org
>     <mailto:aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org>>
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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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