Re: installing on an indy
Hi,
>I have just been given an Indy and a Challenge, by the college I work for.
>They were throwing the machines out and I managed to convince them to
>throw them my way. However, unfortunately I seem to be to late to prevent
>them from throwing out the system CDs. So, I decided I'll put Linux on the
>machines. I have started with the Indy, but I didn't get very far. I
>downloaded the Debian distribution and made the CDs, but I can't get the
Debian Woody, I presume?
>Indy to boot from the first CD. This is what happens:
>
>I boot the system.
>Click on Stop for Maintenance
>Click on Install System Software
>Select the CD-ROM and Continue
>Then I get an error: Volume header not valid.
This is expected, as booting from CD is not supported. You have to do
a network install. I have no idea if you can boot off the new debian
installer CDs for 3.1 (Sarge), but I doubt it.
BTW, as I did the install on my Indy, I ran into a puzzling problem:
even after I tftp-booted my box, I was not able to access my CDROM,
even though it was working perfectly OK under Irix. Turned out that
I had to switch *off* parity checking, because the Linux driver had
parity off as well. This was at least a year ago, so YMMV, but I thought
I'll mention it.
HTH,
Uli
PS: You should include a real name in the header - my spam filter classified
your mail as junk.
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