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My attempts at installing Solaris 7 (8/99 release) have failed, always
at the same point: Configuring devices. I think I have a hardware
incompatibility. Note: all hardware works under DOS.

Here's the hardware:

ASUS TX97-LE motherboard (on the Sun HCL)
AMD K-6, 300 MHz
PC-100 RAM (128 MB)
Matrox Millennium video card (on the SUN HCL)
Mitsumi 24X CD-ROM (ATAPI/IDE)
Matrox 8 GB hard disk (IDE)
Intel Pro 100 NIC

Some things I've done in an attempt to have Solaris install include:

1. Changing the cabling of the CD-ROM from Secondary master to Primary
slave
2. Disabling video cache
3. Reducing clock  speed of the CPU (down to 233 MHz)
4. Disabling external cache
5. Disabling ROM BIOS shadowing
6. Reading a lot of docs at SUN sites.

NOTHING has worked! Installation always fails at the same point!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Erik Jensen

At which point does it fail? Sometimes my system hung while loading
com.bef, and rebooting usually solved it.  If it hangs at kdmconfig
(that's when you configure your graphics devices), skip that part --
you can run it after the installation.

Quote:>My attempts at installing Solaris 7 (8/99 release) have failed, always
>at the same point: Configuring devices. I think I have a hardware
>incompatibility. Note: all hardware works under DOS.

>Here's the hardware:

>ASUS TX97-LE motherboard (on the Sun HCL)
>AMD K-6, 300 MHz
>PC-100 RAM (128 MB)
>Matrox Millennium video card (on the SUN HCL)
>Mitsumi 24X CD-ROM (ATAPI/IDE)
>Matrox 8 GB hard disk (IDE)
>Intel Pro 100 NIC

>Some things I've done in an attempt to have Solaris install include:

>1. Changing the cabling of the CD-ROM from Secondary master to Primary
>slave
>2. Disabling video cache
>3. Reducing clock  speed of the CPU (down to 233 MHz)
>4. Disabling external cache
>5. Disabling ROM BIOS shadowing
>6. Reading a lot of docs at SUN sites.

>NOTHING has worked! Installation always fails at the same point!

>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

>Erik Jensen

At the point where it says

'Configuring sevices' and the cursor is spinning and spinning and
spinning...

 If it hangs at kdmconfig

Quote:> (that's when you configure your graphics devices), skip that part --
> you can run it after the installation.

Thanks for your inquiry...

BTW, are you in the Ukraine?

Erik

You can try downloading the updated image of the device configuration
diskette from http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/DeviceConfig7.html
-- shit happens with floppies.
Never been to Ukraine, but my gramma's from there.