Re: Re: Installing on a recently acquired SS20

Well I finally got rid of the SUN partitions on both disks but the only 
way I could do it was:

Remove one drive run the install in text mode use fdisk to re tag the 
sun partition as a linux one.
Exit fdisk
Re run fdisk and delete the now linux partition manually
Exit fdisk
allow autoconfigure to run create the required partitions
Aurora install now proceeded normally.
Changed the drive and repeated the procedure and then reinstalled both 
disk in the machine.
Aurora install proceeded to conclusion without error.

Rebooted machine but got the error that the file was not executable.

Suspect this is finger trouble as the openboot is looking for the 
default boot devices as disk and net and probably not looking to boot 
off the linux partition.

I had a spare (borrowed from work 9GB SCA drive) which I tried as well 
but that did not have any SUN partitions and the install went through as 
expected. At 02:00 in the morning this was as far as I got. Will try to 
sort out the boot problem tonight.

Thanks for the help.

Keith
T. Ribbrock wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:05:32PM +0000, Keith R Kilby wrote:
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>>It almost looks as if the disks are write protected but I cant see how.
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>*Wild* guess: Some drives actually have hardware jumpers to write
>protect them. Not that I've ever seen them used, but it might be
>something to check.
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>Cheerio,
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>Thomas
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