"Brian E.W. Wood" wrote:
>
> On 05-Oct-99 Greg Gonnerman wrote:
> >
> >> Could be a problem with the CDrom drive... My first CD on my Intel box
> >> would just "stop and take a breath" while reading files, which was ok
> >> under winslows... but under Linux, it immediately gave errors and
> >> crapped out.
> >
> > You know what, I've been thinking along the same lines. The system
> > in question has had nearly every version of SunOS and Solaris
> > installed on it that has been released in the last ten years.
> > But, maybe, just maybe, there's something wrong with the CD drive
> > or the SCSI controller and Linux isn't as tolerant as SunOS and
> > Solaris. I've already tried installing on a different disk, but
> > to no avail.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this? Could this be a plausible explanation?
>
> Don't know but I can relate my own experience.
>
> I have two "Sun Bootable" CDROM drives that boot and install Solaris just fine,
> but neither will work for a Linux install. The only drive I have which will
> install Linux is an old Pinnacle CD-R drive, and at that it sometimes takes
> several tries due to file errors.
>
> Interestingly the CD-R drive will *not* install Solaris.
A lot of PC cdroms and CD-R drives are built with 1024 blocksize, Sun
bootable (if memory serves) CD's need to be 512. I have seen this
problem over and over. On older machines, particularly IPC and below
(but this may affect LX also, can't remember) you can't use the more
modern Sun external CD's at all to boot from. For older machines, if
you have the hardware/disk space, you may want to do an FTP or NFS
installation. I was not able to get SparcLinux CD to boot from the
internal CD on a sparc-20, so I got the updated kernel image disks and
made boot floppies and it all worked just fine. Same-same on sparc1+,
which unfortunately succumbed to a lightning strike after that!
Dan
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