Jensen RedHat install How-To
What you need
- Three formatted 1.44MB floppy disks
- A Jensen with firmware not later than V1.7 (if you have, please
downgrade to V1.7)
- ARC utils from ftp.azstarnet.com or gatekeeper.digital.com, especially
the minlabel.exe and copyboot.exe programs.
- The RedHat floppy images jensen.img and
ramdisk.img
And so it works
- Put the ARC util programs on a freshly DOS formatted floppy.
- Do a rawrite of the diskimages jensen.img and
ramdisk.img on the two other formatted disks.
- Now the more interesting part. I will assume that your harddisk is
empty and installed as ID0 (i.e. DKA0 with SRM and sda with Linux).
- Go to SRM console and switch over to the NT ARC console mode.
- Select the setup and select the appropriate floppy type! DO THIS! When
cycling from ARC to SRM and vice versa teh NVRAM seems to be reset and this
setting is lost, so set it now! If the wrong floppy type is selected
copyboot will fail. And don't forget to save ;)
- Return to the menu saying "Run a program". Insert the ARC-utils disk
into the floppy and select "a:minlabel". This will start the partitioning
program.
- Enter your partitions. The first partition has to be a special ext2
partition only for booting, i.e. containing the kernel(s), 8MB is enough for
that. The rest is at your choice.
- Write the new label and return to console. Now start "a:copyboot".
- When started remove the ARC-utils floppy and insert the jensen.img
floppy. Answer the questions appropriatly, i.e. source fd0 and
destination sda.
- Now go back to setup and choose OSF console again.
- After powercycling say "boot dka0"
- On the aboot prompt enter EXACTLY like shown:
1/vmlinux.gz load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0H1440
- You should see the kernel boot and be prompted for the ramdisk floppy.
Insert it and press enter and here you go!
- After that step the normal RedHat install procedure starts.