On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 09:56 PM, Grant Grundler wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0500, David Douthitt wrote:Actually, in the process of testing, I have. The HP-UX disk remains intact and operational. The new Debian disks do not have a valid LIF.Ok. Can you reboot with a install CD (or net boot) and get "fdisk -l /dev/sdX"? "X" is for either of the two linux drives.
I don't understand how I can do that - though I do see something similar when cfdisk runs...
Isn't there a shell prompt available during the login process?Well? :-)Sorry - I don't understand the question.
During the installation of a Red Hat system, I can press "Alt-F2" and get a shell prompt to do whatever. I can press "Alt-F3" and see some logs - and "Alt-F4" gets more logs.
When I'm looking at the install screens, how do I "escape" to a shell prompt?
I'm surprised that there isn't a PALO command that runs under HP-UX... then you could use HP-UX to prep the disk for a Linux installation.
One bug: if you go through all the steps to install over the net, but find yourself having put in the wrong networking details... you won't get a chance to re-enter the networking details (such as card, IP, DNS, etc.)