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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:14:32 +0000
From: Bob <rpangrazio@gmail.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Noob intall issues
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On Dec 10, 1:55 pm, j...@csail.mit.edu (Jonathan D. Proulx) wrote:
> 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
In VMWare try moving your cdrom over to scsi, or completly removing
it.

Thanks
Bob