Hi, Joel --
The prevailing feeling here is that the simplest install method
ought to work: if the problem that prevents a successful install
of Debian 3.0 on an rp2430 was resolved in 2002, the 3.0r2 CDs
downloaded in April of 2004 should be up-to-date. (Do let me
know if I've misunderstood the postings which seem to indicate
this to be the case.) I sense that if any work whatsoever beyond
a CD-rom install is needed, I will be directed to scrap our rp2430s
in favor of new Dell servers on which we would run Fedora Core 2.
I hope to use one rp2430 as a CUPS print server, and another as an
OS install server. Later, another would be deployed as a replacement
for a CD/DVD/PDF NFS/Samba cache server. For three machines offering
relatively simple services to Pentium Linux boxes, HP-UX workstations,
and Windows PCs, doing much more than installing from CD-rom is viewed
as difficult to justify, since the kickstart/install process for the
Fedora boxes is *relatively* well understood here. Yet these rp2340s
are very stable, and have fibre-channel cards with which I have good
experience. So I would like to see them used for these specific
services.
Fortunately there is not yet a huge rush to deploy these services,
and it is my hope that the Sarge hppa CDs will resolve this issue for
me, by giving me what I want at a cost in terms of time spent that my
manager will accept. After all, once the software is installed on
the box, everything will work on the first try, won't it? :-)
Have a great day!
Don
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Soete [mailto:jsoe0708@tiscali.be]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:10 AM
To: Glascock, Donald S.; debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: shiny new rp2430 (A400) won't boot :-(
> Are you recommending that I wait for the next release (3.0r3?),
> burn those CDs, and see if things work better?
Don't you have the opportunity to prepare your boot disk on an other system
(even a 32bit machine is good enough) on which you can install a recent 64
bit kernel of your choice for your A?
If not prefer a netinst.iso (available near:
<http://www.pateam.org/cd-images/testing/>)
hth,
Joel
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