AlphaCore 1.0 final release !

[Balint Cristian]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch at adelphia.net>
To: "Linux on Alpha processors" <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: AlphaCore 1.0 final release !


> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Balint Cristian wrote:
>
>> Salut !
>>
>> Proud to announce that me and Sergey, after a long hobby'sh
>> development, finaly released Alpha Core 1.0 aka "Svetlana" !
>>
>>    Svetlana is based on Fedora Core 3 release, it is a pure
>> recompilation over alpha of fedora project with additional pain to fix
>> platform specific things to make it work. It olso already include latest
>> fedora 3 updates.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running into problems trying to install Alpha Core 1.0.  The box is a
> UP2000+ with an Adaptec 39160 controller.  There are (2) drives attached,
> one on each channel.  The dka device is partitioned and formatted for
> Tru64 Unix.  Dkb has (3) other Linux distributions installed and has been
> partitioned with a BSD disklabel scheme.
>
> I'm trying to install onto an unused partition on dkb.  The installer
> trips over dka, telling me that the partition table is unreadable and
> asking if I want to reinitialize it.  I answer "no".  It then tells me
> that dkb is unreadable as well! When I tell it not to initialize that
> disk, it terminates with an error (thinking that no disks are available).
>
> The question is: why can't the installer read the partition information on
> either drive?  Granted, it won't know about AdvFS on dka, but it still
> should have read the disklabel.  And, since the Linux distros on dkb are
> functional there's no reason it should have problems of any sort.

Hmm interesting. I notice the issue, keep that in mind.

>
> Any advice as to how I proceed with installation and avoid repartitioning
> the second disk?

As quick hack, try unplug physicaly dka down from SCSI bus !


>
> Steve
>
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