Re: Ultra 5 silo installation problem

2004-09-20 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hi I solved the problem... I switched the hard disk and didn't realise that the sun id must be made when partitioning a non sun disk. After that Silo installed without a problem. So, basically it was kind of a dumb mistake that I overlooked. I'm new to sun hardware and I wasn't aware that yo

Re: Ultra 5 silo installation problem

2004-09-20 Thread James A. Morrison
John Kerr Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Thanks for the pointers, but I still think something is wrong. I > created a cd image from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > the installation went fine until once again, silo wouldn't install. > It gave me a silo error code

Re: Ultra 5 silo installation problem

2004-09-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:56:18AM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:07:19PM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on an Ultra 5. After installing the base > >> packages, th

Re: Ultra 5 silo installation problem

2004-09-18 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hi, Thanks for the pointers, but I still think something is wrong. I created a cd image from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ the installation went fine until once again, silo wouldn't install. It gave me a silo error code of 1. I used the sarge debian installer image, should

Re: Ultra 5 silo installation problem

2004-09-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:07:19PM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on an Ultra 5. After installing the base > packages, the machine says that Silo will be installed, but it keeps on > failing. This is what it says: > > "Silo wasn't able to instal

Ultra 5 silo installation problem

2004-09-17 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hello, I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on an Ultra 5. After installing the base packages, the machine says that Silo will be installed, but it keeps on failing. This is what it says: "Silo wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your system if you create a boot floppy, but i