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Hi,
I want to install the ASL 4.0 on our Firewall hardware:
128 MB RAM
PII 233
SCSI Controller AIC7880 (ID7)
IBM SCSI HDD 8 GB (empty) (ID1)
Toshiba SCSI-CD-ROM (ID4)
2 NIC's 3Com905B TX
After Checking the Hardware and finding each and everything OK, a screen appears which says that I shall remove the CD and reboot because the installation failed.
On console 3 and 4 everything looks fine.
On the same hardware there is running a Borderware Firewall Server without any problems, so I'm sure the hardware is ok.
The installation CD I burned (Yes, I've checked the MD5 after the download [;)]s ok.
Any tips or help?I want to migrate on wednesday from the BW Software to ASL and want to save time with preinstalling the base system.
Regards

Andi

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0 Darth_Tux over 22 years ago

Try a different CDROM drive. I have had issues with Toshiba SCSI CDROM drives in the past. Especialy with burned CDs.
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0 Andi_A over 22 years ago in reply to Darth_Tux

I will try it. But I'm a little bit scared that the installation routine has a bug because I look at con 3 and see that there was found the cdrom at sr0, and the last part was that it tried to mount sr0 to /install. I changed to con2 and try to mount the CD manually with "mount /dev/sr0 -t iso9660 /install" result: "/dev/sr0 not such device" after doing a "ls /dev/s*" I found there was an scd0 entry. so I tried a "mount /dev/scd0 -t iso9660 /install" and the CD was mounted fine.
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0 Andi_A over 22 years ago in reply to Darth_Tux

I will try it. But I'm a little bit scared that the installation routine has a bug because I look at con 3 and see that there was found the cdrom at sr0, and the last part was that it tried to mount sr0 to /install. I changed to con2 and try to mount the CD manually with "mount /dev/sr0 -t iso9660 /install" result: "/dev/sr0 not such device" after doing a "ls /dev/s*" I found there was an scd0 entry. so I tried a "mount /dev/scd0 -t iso9660 /install" and the CD was mounted fine.
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0 Andi_A over 22 years ago in reply to Andi_A

Now I quit sure it's a bug:
I've burned a CD on another CD-R drive with another software replaced the CD-ROM drive with a new Plextor drive: Same result.
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to Andi_A

PII started at 233MHz.
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0 karabela over 22 years ago in reply to Andi_A

in which step did the installation faile
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0 Andi_A over 22 years ago in reply to karabela

After Step 3 of 8.
Allready posted in another message.
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0 SnoozingBear over 22 years ago in reply to Andi_A

Andy, I am experiencing the same problem although with different hardware components (PII 450, 256 MB, 2 Seagate ST39173W SCSI drives, Plextor CD-ROM PX-32TS SCSI, SYMBIOS Logic 875XS/D 2280X PCI on board SCSI adapter).

Looks like an install Bug to me!
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0 lhe over 22 years ago in reply to SnoozingBear

Off topic, but

Does ASL use the advantage of having multiple harddrives? I assume you have single drives and not in a RAID configuration.
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0 SnoozingBear over 22 years ago in reply to lhe

at first tried it with 2 single drives - when it failed the first time I disconnected the second drive. Result was the same.
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to SnoozingBear

It probably doesnt like the SCSI controller.
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0 Andi_A over 22 years ago in reply to SnoozingBear

IMHO ASL does not support more than one harddrive.
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0 Andi_A over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

I resolved the problem with installing the ASL 3.2
Our consultant configured the system.
After looking in our storage room I found an older IDE CD drive. I replaced the SCSI Drive with it and make an update to ASL 4.0 and finished.
All is running smoothly our employees are getting mad because they can't surf all the sites like in former times
Regards

Andi
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