Booted image on a Sun Ultra 10 using rarp/tftp and the 64-bit image (same way as I did when I installed RH 6.0, which is currently running on this Ultra 10). Choose custom installation, used existing partitions, choose timezone...then the installation program said "checking packages" (or something to that effect) and there was obvious network activity as it was reading from the ftp server. Then the box that said "checking packages" disappeared, network activity stopped and I was left with a blue screen with a blinking cursor in the middle and the normal navagation text on the bottom of the screen. Was able to switch to another VT, but could glean nothing from the limited command set available. Regards, Jeffrey Pych Lucent Technologies, Inc. Westminster, Colorado USA
There are some pretty serious hangs in the sparc installation, especially when performing the installation over the network. You might want to just let it sit at the blue screen for a little while and see whether it ever does anything else. If you are able to switch consoles, then it is not looked up, so there is still a chance that it is loading something.
Well, I let it sit at the blue screen and after about 20 minutes, the package selection screen appeared. So it does eventually work, but this ~20 minute pause in the installation should probably still be logged as a bug.
Now there is another problem with the package installation. There is a 20-minute pause between each package installation. The ftp server is the one shipped with RedHat 6.0 and is located in the same building on a different subnet.
I see identical problems with IPX installation. Left the install running for 24 hours, only 72 packages were installed (72 packages x approx 20 min/package = 24 hours, oddly enough). Stopped and restarted install a number of times, same result. Watched the network traffic with a sniffer, when ftp session is actually begun session proceeds very quickly; there is just a tremendous lag between initiation of each successive ftp transfer.
This is the behavior of the installer at the moment, but there is a motion (and I think that it was implemented in the latest installer) to only open the FTP pipe once and download everything at that time. In previous installers, every package was executed as a separate FTP session, and we found that was doing bad things.