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Re: Adaptec 2940UW Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Drukker)
Wed Nov 20 15:21:34 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:17:11 -0600 (CST)
From: "David M. Drukker" <drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
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Dear Allen,
Thanks for the note, the only problem that I have is that I don't have an
IDE drive lying around since this is a new machine that only has a SCSI
drive. So I am hoping to be able to install it straight on to the SCSI
drive.
Thanks,
David
-David M. Drukker
drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
ECB 1.116
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
>
>
> Hmn.
>
> With both Slakware, and RH 3.0.3 I've been successful.
>
> I developed a bit of a procedure.
>
> 1. Put in an IDE drive
> 2. Install onto the IDE
> 3. Rebuild a kernel on the IDE drive for the 2940
> 4. With the new kernel, you can reboot and install to the SCSI
>
> (Basically speaking)
>
> Unfortunately I haven't done 4.0 yet.
>
> THX
> -AEF
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, David M. Drukker wrote:
>
> > Has anybody with an adaptec 2940UW been able to install Red Hat 4.0?
> >
> > I have an adaptec 2940UW, I have tried both the bootaic7xxx and the
> > bootaic7xxx-alt from the errata page and nothing is working. I must admit
> > that I am a little confused about point 5. in the errata-intel.txt file.
> > It says
> >
> > "when the installation or upgrade has finished and the computer
> > reboots, put the boot floppy in the drive and boot off it with the
> > boot command: ..."
> >
> > I letting the system just reboot from the floppy, which of course just
> > gave me back the installation program. I also tried letting lilo come up
> > and typing the command given, which gave me an error. I also tried boot
> > from dos and moving to the floppy which of course did not work because the
> > floppy is linux and not dos.
> >
> > With both of the new Kernal images, the boot floppy finds my Quantam SCSI
> > hard drive by name during the installation boot but after installing I get
> > nothing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
> > -David M.
> > Drukker drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
> > ECB 1.116
> > Department of Economics
> > University of Texas at Austin
> > Austin, Texas 78712
> >
> >
> >
> >
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