Re: Problems installing Aurora 2.99 on SUN Ultra 5 hardware

Milan Ponjevic <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:29:38 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Dennis, I'll try it out.

Regards
On 1 Jun 2010, at 14:14, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 03:26:24 am Milan Ponjevic wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> 
>> I am a novice to linux on SUN Ultra 5 hardware, so forgive me if my
>> question is stupid. First of all I am trying to install from CDROM, the
>> bootable cdrom disk I created from
>> 
>> AL-2.99-sparc-disc1.iso file. I had initial problem booting from it, giving
>> me ' memory address not aligned' error. Found out that my OBP firmware was
>> old so I had to upgrade from 3.25, to 3.31. Then it booted fine, but when
>> choosing install media, it says it does not have a driver for that media?!
>> And I selected local CDROM for install?!
>> 
>> It is IDE CDROM, as well as internal disk. Do I have to supply driver for
>> it, and if yes where to find it?
>> 
>> Kind Regards
>> 
>> Milan
> You really should try the fedora 12 SPARC beta. 
> http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/12-
> Beta/sparc/iso/
> 
> Dennis
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