Linux sparc install errors

[Gerald Combs]

The names sda5 and sda6 refer to different partitions on the same drive
(sda).  If sda is indeed your CD-ROM, you're going to have trouble
partitioning it and mounting any swap devices on it.  :)

Which device is your hard drive?  In your dmesg output, you should see
something like

SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17779500 [8681 MB] [8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17779500 [8681 MB] [8.7 GB]

after the SCSI controller(s) is(are) detected.

BTW, you might want to check out the Aurora project:

    http://auroralinux.org/

They're creating a SPARC distribution based on Red Hat 7.3.  Red Hat
6.2 is a bit old, and I wouldn't be surprised if RH stopped releasing
updates for it (if they haven't already).

You might have better luck with a Linux distribution that still supports
SPARC.  NetBSD supports it as well.

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Kurt Kessler wrote:

> Anyone on the list jack w/ sparcs? I am installing Red
> Hat 6.2(sparc) from cd (was verified) and keep getting
> the same errors:
> 
> "error creating swap on device sda6"
> 
> Then if i click 'ok', I get:
> 
> "error mounting sda5: device not configured"
> 
> I know that my cdrom is sda6, by looking at the
> devalias at boot. I deleted all the hardware aliases
> in the boot sequence and set it back to the defaults.
> Im booting directly from cd. I have tried to manually
> set up partition information, but get the same errors,
> so I think it may have something to do with the
> hardware config? Im sure this is something simple, but
> i've never messed with sparcs b4 so its new to me.
> Would appreciate any help.
> 
> Kurt
> 
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