Just a very quick note on five installs on various hardware. Alpha PWS433 Miata with QLogic scsi card - install goes perfectly but ends in kernel panic on reboot. Either aboot is not correctly set up / the qlogic module is loaded by the installer kernel and not by the real kernel. This is currently a showstopper for me - Steve Langasek and co. are aware of the problem. It'll be fixed in RC2, I've no doubt. But the install process is pretty bloody perfect up to that point :)
Dell Dimension PIII 500MHz machine: full of obscure SCSI devices. RC1 correctly detects and initialises two separate SCSI cards, an Adaptec 2940 and a Tekram DC390T which had always been problematic. APM/ACPI on this machine has always been iffy so I wasn't surprised when it didn't power down immediately after the install completed. Perfect, quick install. Self build machine based on an Intel desktop board with P4 at 1.6GHz, 40GB Maxtor drive as /dev/hdb. Initial install passing linux26 as the boot parameter failed at the partitioning stage when no disk was found. expert26 succeeded at this point and produced a working installation Standard 2.4 install went through without a hitch. [Three install attempts, one failure here] Compaq Prosignia 500 server: has a (known) bug whereby the EISA firmware only reports 16M of memory no matter how much is installed :( Won't boot the installer: will boot Woody from floppies if need be, so will have to rebuild this machine, updating buggy Compaq software "firmware" and then update to Sarge. Should be OK, will keep you posted on this. All SCSI hardware - that was recognised without a problem, at least. Now on to Sparc 20 with SMP :) HTH, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
