[Wizard] Install failing

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:38:45PM +0800, Ed wrote:
> 2) Put the 5G HDD in another machine with a 2.5" - 3.5" adaptor and
> install RH9 that way.  When I swap the drive back to the wizard it
> reboots itself as it is decompressing the kernel

Sounds much like the installed kernel has the wrong optimisation
levels - ie, it's compiled for something > i586. Can you swap it
into the other machine that you installed it on, and install an i586
or lower kernel? (The i586-tsc kernels do not work).

I don't know if RH9 supports i586 or lower, but if all else fails
you could just compile a known-working kernel config from scratch :)
Actually, thinking about it, it must do, if the installer gets as
far as anacoda.

> How have others installed something on these beasts?

The debian installer works fine, as does Knoppix *g*. I haven't
tried anything else, or played with mine at all much lately. The
install process I used was to boot into the original RH 6.2 install,
copy an etherboot image onto the disk, and do a network debian
install.

HTH,

Bernard.

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