I've got a "new" AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 and wanted to try out the new sarge images (after having successfully installed some i386 machines with it). The image I have downloaded yesterday has file dates from "Mar 8 21:15" in the newest files.
I will supply a more formal report later, if you wish, but now I am mainly asking if there is an easy workaround for me to continue installing: I boot successfully, I get to the menu, but when I try to mount the cdrom (SCSI, id 4), the installer can't mount it. It is detected as (retyped): Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel0, id 4, lun 0 sr0 scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision 3.12 The install log has insmod sd_mod Using /lib/modules/2.4.24-1-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.o as last line. When I mount the drive manually by mounting /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd it works just fine, but it gives me following message: mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd is write protected, mounting read-only VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sr(11,0). mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd is write protected, mounting read-only cramfs: wrong magic mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd is write protected, mounting read-only When I look at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, it gives a symbolic link to yyyscsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd with the "yyy"s having dots on them like umlauts or diaresis characters. I tried en_US as well as en_UK or de_DE just to exclude a problem with the locale or charset. Is there a way to continue (e.g. by mounting the CD manually at the right spot or by overriding the CD-Rom detection)? main-menu produces lots of unaligned traps btw, if that makes any difference (though not during trying to mount the cdrom as far as I have seen). I will gladly try out everything, as the machine is without OS and nothing can be destroyed anyway ; ) TIA /ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
