Re: [TCLUG:16064] SPARC fun

[Brian <lxy@cloudnet.com>]

Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com> wrote:

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>On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brian wrote:
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>> I'm having a grand old time with my attempts of getting Red Hat running on
>> my SPARCstation 5.  Both RH6.1 and RH6.2 hang when it starts formatting
>> partitions.  I suspect that it's related to a disk problem but since I
>> have no OS on the machine I can't verify this by any means.  Does anyone
>> know where I could find an ISO image of a live, bootable linux partition
>> for SPARC?  I'd like to boot linux off the CDROM and try diagnosing the
>> disk problems further from the command line.  If anyone has any ideas I'd
>> love to hear any suggestions.
>> 
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>I just did an install on a SPARCstation 1+ yesterday, and to get it
>working, I had to corrupt the partition table so it initialized the drive
>itself. I had the same symtoms.. locking up on format. I managed to
>corrupt the partition table somehow (dunno how, easiest way to do this is
>low-level it..), and then everything started working. Give it a shot?
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Cool.  This machine was originally running SunOS so I'm sure the partition table could use some rebuilding (and disk druid won't tell me what I want to know).  The main problem I have is that I don't have a floppy drive in this machine, and currently the hard drives are non-bootable.  I need to be able to boot an OS off of CD and be able to fix the drive.  Also, do you know of any low-level format utilities under linux?  Thanks!

-brian
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