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[LNX] Help Installing Linux In a Pc With Scsi Hardware Rate Topic: -----

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Posted 30 August 2003 - 05:36 AM

i have an IBM PC Server 315 with the following characteristics the which i want to install it gentoo linux 1.4 (I686)
The mine have 224MB Of RAM
http://www.weblehre....ardware/173.htm


when i boot the cd and use the default kernel and also the nofb kernel i received the follow errors :
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Mount: Mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on /newroot/mnt/cdrom/ failed: no such file or directory
___cd not found

umount: /newroot: device or resource busy

busybox V.0.60.5 (2003.07.23_23:13+0000) built-in shell (ash) enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
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also as the machine have a scsi card i try to use the doscsi option but i received the follow error.
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ramdisk: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
ramdisk: loading 5000 blocks [1 disk] into ram...done
freeing initrd memory: 5088k freed
vfs: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
freeing unused kernel memory: 100k freed
__begining storage detection
__detected aic7xxx hardware
__scanning for aic7xxx_old..._

and the machine stay there

if someone can please provime a little help for installing gentoo in this machine will be great.


Thanx in advance
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Posted 30 August 2003 - 05:48 AM

You'd probably be able to get more support here...
http://forums.gentoo.org

Search there, might find an answer. ;)
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Posted 30 August 2003 - 06:55 PM

Sinbad, on Aug 30 2003, 00:48, said:

You'd probably be able to get more support here...
http://forums.gentoo.org

Search there, might find an answer. ;)

No really, i have 3 post there, and nobody offer me help or are less an idea of where to begin..
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Posted 31 August 2003 - 03:54 PM

what r u usally running on this box ?
did u try the iso on another pc ?

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Posted 31 August 2003 - 03:56 PM

the box is new in my hand...

i not try the cd in other machine but i try slackware in the same machine and i receive and error too....very similar....

This post has been edited by Painkiller: 31 August 2003 - 03:57 PM

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