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Re: Sarge Alpha Install



Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:
> I dug an old Alpha box (Digital/Compaq/HP/Whatever Personal Workstation
> 500a) out of storage today, threw a couple drives and some memory in, and
> grabbed the latest Sarge netinst CD.
> 
> Unfourtanatly, the installer hangs on detecting hardware, specifically the
> onboard Qlogic SCSI card. I don't need the QLogic card as my scsi drives
> are running on an adaptec card, I figured the quick way to get around this
> would be to disable the onboard scsi card.
> 
> Easier said than done it seems. Anyone know how or have another workaround
> idea?

If you boot in expert mode the installer will give you a list of (most)
modules before it loads them, and you can unselect the problimatic one.

-- 
see shy jo

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