Jensen RedHat install How-To

  1. Get the ARC-utils from azstarnet or any mirrorsite. You will need minlabel.exe and copyboot.exe.
  2. Put them on a freshly formatted floppy.
  3. Do a rawrite of the diskimages jensen.img and ramdisk.img.
  4. Now the more interesting part. I will assume that your harddisk is empty and installed as ID0 (i.e. DKA0 and sda with Linux).
  5. Go to SRM console and switch over to the NT ARC console mode.
  6. 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! And don't forget to save ;)
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Write the new label and return to console. Now start "a:copyboot".
  10. When started remove the ARC-utils floppy and insert the jensen.img floppy. Answer the questions appropraitely, i.e. source fd0 and destination sda.
  11. Now go back to setup and choose OSF console again.
  12. After powercycling say "boot dka0"
  13. On the aboot prompt enter EXACTLY like shown:
    1/vmlinux.gz load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0H1440
  14. You should see the kernel boot and be prompted for the ramdisk floppy. Insert it and press enter and here you go!
  15. After that step the normal RedHat install procedure starts.