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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:53:40 -0500
From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@csail.mit.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] Noob intall issues
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Hi,

I've managed to boot a live demo system from the CD under VMware (5.5
linux)  and Qemu, but I'm having a variety of trouble trying to get a
system actually installed.

I prefer real hardware, but that gives me the most trouble.  I'm
trying to install (or even boot the live image) on a Sun Ultra20,
this is an AMD64 system with Nforce4 chipset (which claims to be
supported).  One hurdle I just cleared is that the BIOS is mapping teh
CD to sdC0 rather than sdD0 that the menu expects.  After substituting
that in what I think are the right places, the last being
local!#S/sdC0/data, it just spins the CD at high speed an whirrs for
15min.  After that I shutdown as I couldn take the noise.

Second choice is VMware, I'm using 5.5.2 build-29772 under Linux.
After finding the "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl" I got the installer
to run, and things seemed to go well, but on reboot it hangs at "init:
starting /bin/rc",  that one's been there for about an hour but still
no prompt.

I think I may be making progress with qemu.  It seems the disk I fed
it is too small or so I surmise from the disk full errors on boot and
complaints of missing files.  Though this is my least favorite option
as it's really slow even if I do get it going.

Any wisdom to share?

Thanks,
-Jon