From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: During the intial installation hangs starting X-windows. The video card is on the supported list PBXA-AA. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to using x windows. 2. Also hangs in text mode right after entering root password 3. Actual Results: System freezes Expected Results: Install to finish Additional info: Its Digital alpha server 4/166 w/ 256meg memory symbios scsi 2 1xgig hdd scsi.
When the system freezes, can you look on VC3 and VC4 and see if there are any error messages?
Sorry not sure I understand VC3 or VC4 terms (Virtual Console?) were is the output going? I will attach a captured output from com1
memcluster 1, usage 0, start 256, end 32767 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 32767, end 32768 freeing pages 256:1024 freeing pages 1423:32767 reserving pages 1423:1424 Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc000fd9a000 (1474560 bytes) On node 0 totalpages: 32767 zone(0): 32767 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 Using epoch = 1900 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 325.80 BogoMIPS Memory: 249008k/262136k available (1766k kernel code, 9040k reserved, 774k data, 312k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX got res[8000:80ff] for resource 0 of PCI device 1000:0001 got res[8400:847f] for resource 0 of PCI device 1011:0002 got res[2200000:22000ff] for resource 1 of PCI device 1000:0001 got res[2201000:220107f] for resource 1 of PCI device 1011:0002 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1000:0001) cmd reg 0x47 PCI enable device: (PCI device 8086:0484) cmd reg 0x7 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1011:0002) cmd reg 0x47 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 165034kB/55011kB, 512 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 1440k freed loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI IS APNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 sym53c8xx: not initializing, device not supported ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected ncr53c810-0: rev 0x1 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11 ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 0568 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 0568 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: DEC Model: RRD45 (C) DEC Rev: 1645 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sda: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) Partition check: sda: ncr53c810-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sdb: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) sdb: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<4,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 4.0 MB/s (250 ns, offset 8) sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Greetings. Red Hat install init version 7.0 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done mounting /dev/pts (unix98 pty) filesystem... done Red Hat install init version 7.0 using a serial console remember, cereal is an important part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast. checking for NFS root filesystem...no trying to remount root filesystem read write... done checking for writeable /tmp... yes running install... running /sbin/loader Running anaconda - please wait... Red Hat Linux (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc. Root Password ~>>> >>> >>> >>>Linux version 2.4.3-12BOOT (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 2 0000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 Fri Jun 8 13:14:31 EDT 2001 Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM Command line: console=ttyS0 console=tty0 memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 256 memcluster 1, usage 0, start 256, end 32767 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 32767, end 32768 freeing pages 256:1024 freeing pages 1423:32767 reserving pages 1423:1424 Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc000fd9c000 (1474560 bytes) On node 0 totalpages: 32767 zone(0): 32767 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 console=tty0 Using epoch = 1900 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 325.80 BogoMIPS Memory: 249008k/262136k available (1766k kernel code, 9040k reserved, 774k data, 312k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX got res[8000:80ff] for resource 0 of PCI device 1000:0001 got res[8400:847f] for resource 0 of PCI device 1011:0002 got res[4000000:5ffffff] for resource 0 of PCI device 1011:0004 got res[2200000:223ffff] for resource 6 of PCI device 1011:0004 got res[2240000:22400ff] for resource 1 of PCI device 1000:0001 got res[2241000:224107f] for resource 1 of PCI device 1011:0002 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1000:0001) cmd reg 0x47 PCI enable device: (PCI device 8086:0484) cmd reg 0x7 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1011:0004) cmd reg 0x87 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1011:0002) cmd reg 0x47 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 tgafb: DC21030 [TGA] detected, rev=0x02 tgafb: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: Digital ZLXp-E1 frame buffer device at 0x4000000 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 165013kB/55004kB, 512 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 1440k freed loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI IS APNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 sym53c8xx: not initializing, device not supported ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected ncr53c810-0: rev 0x1 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11 ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 0568 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 0568 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: DEC Model: RRD45 (C) DEC Rev: 1645 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) sda: Spinning up disk...............ready SCSI device sda: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) Partition check: sda: ncr53c810-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sdb: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) sdb: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<4,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 4.0 MB/s (250 ns, offset 8) sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Linux version 2.2.15-b1 (chmou.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991 030 (prerelease)) #28 Wed May 17 14:58:31 CEST 2000 Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM Command line: mdkinst rw ramdisk=32000 network Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc000fede000 (665355 bytes) Calibrating delay loop... 163.58 BogoMIPS Memory: 255288k available Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 512k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 256k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Alpha PCI BIOS32 revision 0.04 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 136.000 MB/sec 32regs : 112.000 MB/sec using fastest function: 8regs (136.000 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Linux-Mandrake install init version 1.1 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done opening /proc/cmdline... done checking command line arguments... done failed to open /dev/tty1failed. I can't recover from this. Linux version 2.2.15-b1 (chmou.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991 030 (prerelease)) #28 Wed May 17 14:58:31 CEST 2000 Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM Command line: mdkinst Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc000fed4000 (707044 bytes) Calibrating delay loop... 163.58 BogoMIPS Memory: 255248k available Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 512k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 256k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Alpha PCI BIOS32 revision 0.04 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size Floppy drive(s):fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 112.000 MB/sec 32regs : 104.000 MB/sec using fastest function: 8regs (112.000 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Linux-Mandrake install init version 1.1 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done opening /proc/cmdline... done checking command line arguments... done failed to open /dev/tty1failed. I can't recover from this. ~Linux version 2.2.15-b1 (chmou.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 1999 1030 (prerelease)) #28 Wed May 17 14:58:31 CEST 2000 Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM Command line: mdkinst rw ramdisk=32000 cdrom Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc000fed4000 (707044 bytes) Calibrating delay loop... 163.58 BogoMIPS Memory: 255248k available Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 512k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 256k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Alpha PCI BIOS32 revision 0.04 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 104.000 MB/sec 32regs : 112.000 MB/sec using fastest function: 32regs (112.000 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Linux-Mandrake install init version 1.1 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done opening /proc/cmdline... done checking command line arguments... done failed to open /dev/tty1failed. I can't recover from this. ~ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Linux version 2.4.3-12BOOT (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 2 0000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 Fri Jun 8 13:14:31 EDT 2001 Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM Command line: console=ttyS0 console=tty0 memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 256 memcluster 1, usage 0, start 256, end 32767 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 32767, end 32768 freeing pages 256:1024 freeing pages 1423:32767 reserving pages 1423:1424 Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc000fd9a000 (1474560 bytes) On node 0 totalpages: 32767 zone(0): 32767 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 console=tty0 Using epoch = 1900 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 324.52 BogoMIPS Memory: 249008k/262136k available (1766k kernel code, 9040k reserved, 774k data, 312k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX got res[8000:80ff] for resource 0 of PCI device 1000:0001 got res[8400:847f] for resource 0 of PCI device 1011:0002 got res[4000000:5ffffff] for resource 0 of PCI device 1011:0004 got res[2200000:223ffff] for resource 6 of PCI device 1011:0004 got res[2240000:22400ff] for resource 1 of PCI device 1000:0001 got res[2241000:224107f] for resource 1 of PCI device 1011:0002 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1000:0001) cmd reg 0x47 PCI enable device: (PCI device 8086:0484) cmd reg 0x7 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1011:0004) cmd reg 0x87 PCI enable device: (PCI device 1011:0002) cmd reg 0x47 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 tgafb: DC21030 [TGA] detected, rev=0x02 tgafb: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: Digital ZLXp-E1 frame buffer device at 0x4000000 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 165013kB/55004kB, 512 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 1440k freed loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI IS APNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 sym53c8xx: not initializing, device not supported ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected ncr53c810-0: rev 0x1 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11 ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 0568 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 0568 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision:02 Vendor: DEC Model: RRD45 (C) DEC Rev: 1645 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) sda: Spinning up disk...............ready SCSI device sda: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) Partition check: sda: ncr53c810-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sdb: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) sdb: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 ncr53c810-0-<4,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 4.0 MB/s (250 ns, offset 8) sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). After this it trys to start X the screen flashes once and then comes back to text and hangs there.
try booting with: boot <srm name of cdrom drive> -fl 3
I have already tried that and the installer hangs right after entering the root password. I doesn't give any errors the screen just sits there. What does the installer do right after I enter the root password in textonly mode I believe I may have a hardware issue.
The steps: Root password Add first new user Add more new users (if you added the first one) Package selection (lots of CD I/O happens here)
What could the installer be doing after the root password that may cause a hardware hangup? This system had VMS 6x on it and I have installed NT4 server and workstation for alpha on it (both from CD). What am I missing.
is the machine totally frozen? can you change to other virtual consoles? Are there interesting kernel messages on Alt+F4? Does numlock work after the hang?
No the system isn't totally frozen. on the alt+f4 (VC4?) the last entry is raid5 personality registered as nr 4 the only erros is see are : Unalbe to identify CD-ROM format. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0) attempt to access byoind end of device 07:00: rw=0, want 41872, limit 41864 attempt to access beyond end of device 07:00: rw=0, want 41872, limit 41864 on VC3 the last entry is looking for USB mouse.... on VC2 I have a # prompt. This boot was with fl 0 I will try fl 3 to see if errors are differant.
I think you might have a bad cd. Did you download them, and if so, did you verify the md5sum of the ISO before you burned them?
Call me stupid how do you verify the md5sum of the ISO. And yes I did download them.
If you have the ISO's on a linux machine, run the command 'md5sum seawolf-alpha-disc1.iso'. It will probably take a few minutes, and then it will output the result. The results you should see for both ISOs are: 328214917271046c812fc0e255884639 seawolf-alpha-disc1.iso 8f9546a48bd9dc566085f356f370f949 seawolf-alpha-disc2.iso If these numbers don't match the ones you see, then something got corrupted during the download. If the ISO's are on a Windows machine, you can use a shareware program called MD5Sumer for Windows. It can be found on CNet's download site as well as some others.
Checked the MD5SUM and the codes generated are the same as the one on your FTP site.. YOURS: 328214917271046c812fc0e255884639 seawolf-alpha-disc1.iso The one from MD5SUMER: 328214917271046c812fc0e255884639 *seawolf-alpha-disc1.iso I will give you info from the VCs on the text install to see if I find anything I will also BURN another CD on a differant burner to see if that makes a differance.
ok, please update the bug when you've verified the burn.
Did burn another CD but it didn't make a differance. However when I get pased the root password screen and switch VC3 it says not enough space for ..... This system has 2- 1 gig HDD... and 288 megs memory..
I flashed the SRM/ARC console and the installation when through upto copying files then it ran out of disk space. So it seems to be ok now. Thanks for the assistance. Out of the linux distribs I tried Redhat was the only one to give any help. Who says linux isn't supported. Thank-you again. James Rowe Network Admin
Glad to be of help. It seems things are working now, although I'm not sure why. Maybe it was a problem with SRM, but that doesn't seem likely. Bugs that just disappear bother me. Anyway, it appears that the problems are no longer occurring. Thanks for your report.