Olivetti server

Edgar Allen era at sky.net
Mon Apr 17 08:08:27 CDT 2000


Randy Reames writes:
>
>I have this Olivetti 160/R dual p90 that I am trying to install some
>flavor of Linux on. It is a scsi all around no ide. It has 4 scsi hds
>off of a dpt raid controller card and a scsi cdrom. If anyone one has
>got linux on one of please let me know. It has no support to boot from
>cdrom so I use a boot disk. I have tried RH, Mandrake, SUSE, and Debian.
>Which I have successfully installed many times on other machines before.
>After the standard floppy boot it repeats 
>unknown interrupt 
>over and over. I can catch some message and I believe it is looking for
>hda and/or hdb which of course their is none. My guess is that I need a
>boot disk with support for the scsi cdrom. Any other ideas would be most
>welcome.
>
>Randy Reames
>-- 
    The last time I installed Slackware they had a seperate
    boot image for SCSI installs.

    You might check them out.  The installs were never as
    friendly as RedHat et. al. but since this is not your first
    install you should be OK.




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