[Fedora-sparc] Problems installing Fedora 12 beta on SUN Ultra 5 hardware

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday, June 04, 2010 02:12:09 pm Milan Ponjevic wrote:
> 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. 
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> 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.

Boot into rescue mode to get a prompt; find the device to use with fdisk -l (probably will be /dev/sda), then dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=2 (although I typically zero out the first full cylinder at least).

Now try again.  This is a FAQ for F12 on SPARC, incidentally, and you can find the beginnings of documentation about it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/SPARC