Re: (newbie) Installation interruption or impatience
You're right; F2 -- 'ps ax' returned an I/O error.
C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: C. Ridout <archae13@qwest.net>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: (newbie) Installation interruption or impatience
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:55:52AM -0600, C. Ridout wrote:
> > So sorry -- I realized that more info was required, but didn't want to
clog
> > the works.
> >
> > It's a Sparc IPC w/ 48 meg memory (32 ram /16 rom), 1.3 gig scsi hdd,
cdrom,
> > tape backup . . . I'm installing from the cdrom from disks I purchased
from
> > Debian after I had the same prob w/ floppies I made from the free disk
> > images at Debian -- figured it was a media prob.
> >
> > I checked the log. Other than the timestamp (and therefore the system
time)
> > being about 8 hours ahead, nothing seems to have happened.
> >
> > There are two lines:
> >
> > aug 18 16:05:40 (none) Syslogd Started: BusyBox v0.43
> > (2000.08.03-15:11*0000)
> >
> > aug 18 16:08:22 (none) user.info dbootstrap[38]:
> > __
> >
> > I am able to use F3 to access the shell: I can 'pwd' and get root, and I
> > 'ls' and get 'I/O error' -- beyond that, I am unsure what to do here
>
> I assume you mean F2? You should switch to console 2 (ALT+F2), and hit
> return, which will give you a shell prompt. Try doing a "ps ax" to see
> the process list.
>
> Ben
>
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