Installation Problem

[Michael Kronsteiner]

Alphas can be quite picky on I/O stuff. make sure you have supported
controllers, as well as 100% error free disks - floppys are a pain here
- also often elder cd-roms dont read "clean". and maybe try a newer
thing than redhat 7.2 ;)



On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 21:55 +0300, Josef Tupag wrote:
> I am trying to install a RedHat 7.2 on an AlphaPC
> 164LX running SRM 5.8-1
> 
> Boot from Floppy:
> b dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0
> load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"
> ...
> running anaconda - please wait ...
> 
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> traceback (innermost last):
> file "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 31, in?
> if (os.path.exist('isys')):
> attributeerror: path
> install exited abnormally
> 
> 
> Boot from SCSI cd-rom:
> b dka500
> ...
> failed to send read to dka500
> 
> Boot from IDE cd-rom:
> b dqa0
> ...
> failed to send read to dqa0
> 
> Any suggestion would be appreciated.
> 
> Josef Tupag best humidifier
> 
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