Subject: Problem Installing Red Hat on 540 visual workstation

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:47:49 +0200

Hi,

I tried to install the Red Hat 6.0 by the rules that are given on
http://www.linux.sgi.com/intel
<http://www.deja.com/[ST_artlink=www.linux.sgi.com]/jump/http://www.linux.sg
i.com/intel>, however it did not work out. The first
floppy did not boot properly. After this I followed the suggestion of
booting with larc.exe, however the boot was not succesful.

WIth larc.exe the next messages are displayed :
OSLoadPartition : multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)partition(1)
OSLoadFileName : /la2210.vw
OSLOadScript : root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

ARC opening multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)partition(1)la2210.vw
ARC reading 52 bytes at offset 0

then it read the floppy forever.

My Hardware Inventory :
SGI_ARCx86_mp
dual processor 500 Mhz x86 Family 6, Model 7, STepring 2 (1024 L2 Cache)
Firmware 1.006
Memory 2048 MB
Display Cobalt Graphics
Network Intel 82257
USB Keyboard / Mouse
with Raid QL 4 QL 1080 SCSI 2 - disks

Thanks in advance for any suggestions to install Linux on this system. 

Best regards,

Zeno Geradts