Re: Installing 3.0 on sparc

[Mathew Meins <devnull@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:06:49 -0700
demthu!dim.com!stain wrote:

> I am trying to install OBSD on a sparc 4m with 256M RAM. I have 2 4gig SCSI 2 drives in.
> I get through writing out my disklabels and such and when I get to installing base30.tgz
> it seems to un tar/gzio the file and then what ever the script does next makes it output 
> a screen or 2 worht of text and it reboot immediatly. It seems to write the FS fine and 
> give no errors. Is there a good way for me to test the drives on this box from the
> shell I can drop from the install program? Is there a easy way to trap this output so I can 
> look at it. Any help would be appreciated. 
> 
> If I need to redirect this to the sparc mailing list I will do so. Just let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 

You could try installing it while using a terminal emulator on another box hooked up to ttya, and log it that way.
 
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