Alpha Core 3 on XP 1000

[Balint Cristian]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:21, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> Sergey & Cristian,
> 
> thanks for the hints.  I have a bunch of CD drives, including SCSI.  Same
> thing happened way back, installing RH 7.1 from factory stamped CDs.
> 
> An 8X Cd  drive did the job that time.  I'll try some of those tricks.

 Personaly i bought for ~30USD an old caddysh plextor and an old 4x writer 
scsi-matsushita unit. 
Those never failed anymore, indeed those are _really_ good quality units !

  My PWS Miata camed equiped with lite-on IDE wich from my experience is a sucky sh*t, even
if its brand new ...

/cristian


> 
> jn
> 
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> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Sergey Tikhonov <tsv at solvo.ru>
> To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:02:58 +0300
> Subject: Re: Alpha Core 3 on XP 1000
> 
> > Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> > 
> > >To the list:
> > >
> > >I downloaded AC3 last weeek, md5sums OK, etc and burned the disks.  Couldn't
> > >get them to work on either an xp1000/EV67 or a PWS600. The graphic installer
> > >hangs at various places ... i changed CD drives on the XP, some improvement. 
> > >Burned a new set of CDs on a better machine, still can't run the install.
> > >
> > >The installer hangs especially when it starts the install, but other problems
> > >rise when you get to the point of choosing install packages.  No list of
> > >programs or packages comes up.  Etc. Etc.
> > >
> > >I got the setup from ftp.alphacore.info, I assume its good, atleast the
> > >MD5sums are OK.
> > >
> > >I know the distro was built on a PWS and it should run like clockwork.  I will
> > >try a text install toningt and see if things work better ..
> > >  
> > >
> > Yes, I did two full installs (gui and text) on PWS. But I used nfs 
> > install (tired of reburning of CDs and getting read errors from them)
> > . The missing list of packages is known problem just install what 
> > ever it installs by default and yum necessary packages later. I 
> > really didn't want to spend a lot of time trying to fix it, due my 
> > little experience in python and really hard environment for 
> > debugging of installer. :( So, if you can use nfs install its even 
> > faster. :)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sergey Tikhonov
> > 
> > Head, R&D department
> > Solvo Ltd.
> > Saint-Petersburg, Russia
> > http://www.solvo.ru
> > tsv at solvo.ru
> > 
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Balint Cristian (Red Hat Release Engineering Team)
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