Subject: Re: Can I skip the installer's GUI-based assignment of partitions to FS mount points?
From: Steve Scherbinski (Scherbis@meijer.com)
Date: Thu Sep 23 1999 - 04:20:08 MDT
As Dan Burcaw told me earlier this week, in fdisk, write a new DOS partition, make the partitions you want and after writing the partition table to disk, reboot the server. Also I was on IBM's redbook site, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com and under the redpieces link, there was a redbook in progress on the B50. It has a chapter in it on installing Linux and said they did it on an F50, so you may want to look at that, though it is a work in progress.
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>>> "Moertel, Tom" <TMoertel@seic.com> 09/22 5:21 PM >>>
I asked the list earlier about this but didn't get many responses, and so
I'll try again from a different angle.
We're tying to install YDL CS 1.1 on a loaded RS/6000 F50. The installer
works fine until after we partition the drives. Then it tries to read the
partition maps on the drives before letting us assign mount points (e.g.,
"/" or "/usr") to partitions. Unfortunately, the installer can't seem to
handle AIX's partitioning format, which some of the drives must use, and it
clains that such drives are corrupt. It provides an option to Skip such
drives, when we try to skip a drive, the installer segfaults and dies.
I'm sure that we can *run* YDL on this F50, if we can just get through the
install. Any ideas?
Thanks very much for your help, and thanks to the folks who tried to help us
earlier.
Cheers,
Tom
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