Subject: Re: clones?
From: Erich Eyler (eyler@campmor.com)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 12:21:13 MDT
I'll plug it out after pdisk, tryagain, and let you know. thanks..
-Erich
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<eyler@campmor.com>
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Ed Jaeger wrote:
> After your first run through with pdisk, after writing the partition
> table you _must_ pull the power, then restart the machine, go through
> the initial part of the setup again, then skip the partitioning step.
> If you do not do this you get the message you get.
>
> Why this is I cannot tell you. I can tell you that the procedure is odd
> enough that it trips up lots of people - it tripped me up the first time
> through, and we've got 8 or so linux machines here all set up by me.
> It's specific to the ppc AFAIK. Turning off the power to a machine
> running linux, especially in the middle of an install, is
> counterintuitive to say the least.
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