From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85762482A for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:59:13 -0600 (MDT) Sender: gururaj@cup.hp.com Message-ID: <3B742096.29E3F963@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:57:43 -0700 From: Gururaj Ananthateerta MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Hirst Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org References: <001f01c1206d$56b98f10$727ba8c0@vaio> <3B732C64.6D2E622F@cup.hp.com> <20010810091516.X23676@linuxcare.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Installation. List-ID: My apologies, I realised that I have posted my question on ia-64 list, but it was too late. Thanks for the comphrensive description. I have one more question. I have an external SCSI CDROM. I guess I am not able to boot through this. Do you think this should be a problem. Thanks Guru Richard Hirst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 05:35:48PM -0700, Gururaj Ananthateerta wrote: > > I have a B180L system, I want to install linux on it. I visited > > parisc-linux > > site. I am confused which ISO image to pick. There are couple of them > > like *serial and *sti. > > Please anyone explain me which one to pick and wht they mean. > > You posted to the ia64 list, not the parisc one, but anyway... > > *serial refers to an ISO for use with a serial console, where you would > install and manage the system via a serial cable link to some other system > (e.g. minicom running on a Linux PC). > > *sti refers to Standard Text Interface, which means using the keyboard > and monitor interface to the system. > > The '32' and '64' in the ISO names refers to 32 and 64 bit CPUs; yours > is 32 bit. > > Assuming your system is currently configured for sti console, you > should be able to force it to use serial console simply by unpluging > the keyboard and cycling power. > > When we released the 0.9 ISO we had seperate ISOs for serial and sti > installs on 32 bit machines and a further serial ISO for 64 bit machines. > This is referred to as 0.9.0 now. > > Next we released a 0.9.1 ISO, but you should ignore that, as it had > various problems. > > The latest release is a 0.9.2 ISO, where we have a single ISO that > works for serial and sti installs on 32 bit machines and for serial > installs on 64 bit machines. > > We have two versions of 0.9.2, "Network Install ISO", which is a CD > you can install from, but which has just the base packages on it. Once > you've installed, you'll need to grab other packages from the network. > 0.9.2 "CD Install ISO" is the same, but includes various other packages > that we considered useful. Even if you install this CD you'll > probably want to upgrade from the network anyway. > > Now, none of these are perfect. If you are using a serial console > then either should work fine for you, and you should use the 0.9.2 > one as it is more up-to-date. > > If you are using an sti console, then I think the 0.9 ISO will work, > although screen redrawing is poor in the installer. If you use the > 0.9.2 ISO with an sti console, you might find that your keyboard is > dead and you are unable to complete the install. Unplugging and > replugging the keyboard (while the installer is running) may help, > as might trying some other model of keyboard. > > The good news is that the keyboard lockup problems are probably > solved, although the code isn't quite ready for committing. I guess > we will release a new ISO with 2.4.7 kernel and working keyboard sometime > soon, although I am about to go on holiday for two weeks so it probably > wont happen until I'm back. > > Finally, I see you are inside HP; I don't know whether the internal > mirrors have 0.9.2 or not, but they are available on > > > Richard