[Fedora-sparc] Problems installing Fedora 12 beta on SUN Ultra 5 hardware
Hi Guys,
As many of you suggested I tried Fedora 12 beta on SPARC, and having a bit of issue at
start.
Booted CDROM, disk1, all goes well, then when I try to partition installation disk, it
fails on adding swap partition. And I tried couple times, each time 'un-handled
exception occurs'. Then I booted Aurora 2.0 from another IDE disk ( I managed to
install Aurora 2.0 while Aurora 2.99 is no go, can't handle IDE disks ), and
partition that disk for installation, i.e. added boot root and swap partitions.
Then booted Fedora install cd, when selected that disk for install as is, clicked next, an
'un-handled exception occurs'. Although have no idea yet, it does sound something
to do with swap.
The disk in question is Maxtor 18gb IDE disk, which I used before so I know is OK. SUN
Ultra 5 is with 512mb of RAM.
It offers me option to debug, but before doing so I was gonna ask if anyone had similar
problem with Fedora 12 beta?
Kind Regards
Milan
On 2 Jun 2010, at 05:23, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:08:21 pm Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Milan Ponjevic <m.ponjevic(a)sky.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I am a novice to linux on SUN Ultra 5 hardware, so forgive me if my
>> question is stupid. First of all I am trying to install from CDROM, the
>> bootable cdrom disk I created from
>>
>> AL-2.99-sparc-disc1.iso<http://aurora.fedoramirror.net/pub/aurora/build-2
>> .99/iso/AL-2.99-sparc-disc1.iso> file. I had initial problem booting from
>> it, giving me ' memory address not aligned' error. Found out that my OBP
>> firmware was old so I had to upgrade from 3.25, to 3.31. Then it booted
>> fine, but when choosing install media, it says it does not have a driver
>> for that media?! And I selected local CDROM for install?!
>>
>> It is IDE CDROM, as well as internal disk. Do I have to supply driver for
>> it, and if yes where to find it?
>
> Not too sure if this pointer can help you, but it's worth to try:
> http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mas01r/aurorafaq.html#IDEInstall
> Aurora's mailing list is a better place to ask,
> http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user
aurora linux is currently dead. we are doing all the work in Fedora now. the
correct list is at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc i
should have pointed that out earlier. sorry for not doing so.
Dennis
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