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PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 9:41 am    Post subject: bootfloppy for: SPARCstation IPX Reply with quote

Hi all,

I just got myself a SparcStation IPX I'm gonna run Gentoo on <already use it on laptop, server <all x86> >

Well, I have a extra discstation <extra lunchbox> attached, giving me 1500mb to install everything on.

My problem is this: got no CD-player.

Anybody have a bootfloppy image I can use to start bare linux with NIC support so I can ftp all of the net ?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You will probably have to use a Debian boot floppy.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been trying to just install overtop a redhat 6.2 install...but hasn't worked yet.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you installing Gentoo on the same root partition or do you have different root partitions?? If you use the same root partition I doubt it will work.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been trying the same root partition. But I've been having other problems to lead to the finish.... Tried 3 times so far (get annoyed and ignore it for a few weeks, then try again).

First time:
--- Installed redhat (normal graphical station)
--- Downloaded and untared gentoo stage 1 to the root directory (I assume it overwrote most of the redhat stuff)
--- Ran the installation steps as per the x86 faq (no sparc faq at the time)
--- Didn't copy the image over correctly and failed on the reboot (my error)


Second time:
--- Installed redhat (custom, bare bones station)
--- Same as above
--- Failed somewhere else, don't recall where


Third time:
--- (last night infact) Installed redhat (custom again)
--- Followed faq
--- Got the masked ebuilds comment the other thread mentions
--- Ignored it and went through all of the steps with no other errors
--- Got one error when I did the ln with the vmlinuz from /boot to / (something about crossing devices and hard link)
--- Worked around and rebooted
--- Got error on restart about being unable to mount... please enter root password cus we can't start otherwise (What is the root password?)


At some point I'll try it on a different disk (machine has 2 disks. Had been spreading the redhat across both of them and hoping gentoo would use the same partition table..... Might have to change that.)
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