Chris Rutter wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Rob Davis wrote:
>
> > I'm having difficulty installing Linux on my A5000. I have a copy of the FTP
>
> > site on CD R/W that I've mounted on the Linux box... However, the A5000
> > installer doesn't want to mount the CD-rom by NFS (says permission denied)...
>
> > It does however work with Omniclient.
>
> Standard NFS problems. What directory have you put the CD-ROM in?
> Paste your /etc/exports file so we can see if there might be
> an obvious glitch. Oh, and never trust OmniGrot.
It needs to be able to write to the disk for some reason??? I've copied it
into /temp (well at least RedHat/RPMS, RedHat/Base and RedHat/instimage and
it goes through the install process now, but NFS dies after about the fifth
file... I have a RedHat 5.2 box too, so I'll try it from that..
>
> > I've tried the long laborious copying over and installing off the hard drive
> > method, but that gets stuck half way through by saying Rebooting System and
> > freezing.
>
> What Ethernet cards (if any) do you have in this machine? Freezes
> on attempting rebooting is very common with ARM Linux -- just hit
> the power switch.
>
> > What install and supplemental disks should I be using? The kernel I have is
> > 2.0.31, I have an Ether 3 ethernet card. The Intel Box is RedHat 6.0. Any
> > ideas?
>
> Oh, you have an Ether3. A podule version, I guess? Try using
> the latest kernel/root you can find -- but *make* sure they match
> in date. I would advise you to do a complete install over NFS,
> so that the supplemental disk is read from a directory mounted
> from the PC.
>
> Oh, and how much HD space have you got on this A5000? You might
> want to consider trying root-over-NFS.
This is the only Kernel I could find, and there is only one bootdisk for this
machine obviously available... I don't think any of the supplement disks work
with it.. :-(
I have 370MB for the root tree... Actually, I only want to use it to NFS
export the ADFS partition and to work as an X Server, so I've probably got
enough... If I get stuck I'll stick /usr on an NFS partition later...
Thanks... I've got a feeling the swap space is not configuring properley, it
says it can't find the swap space signature or something? Any ideas?
--
Rob Davis, at home, on the Linux Box...
Apparently, Windows 2000 has been delayed. It will
now ship around September 1901.
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