Conference turris::digital_unix

9048.0. "Installation error from RIS" by CSC32::K_INGHRAM () Wed Mar 05 1997 21:23

    I have a customer with an RIS server running DEC OSF/1 V3.2 (Rev. 214).
    Server indicates the following:
    
    Enter your choice: s
    
    1  /var/adm/ris/ris0.alpha
          'Digital UNIX V3.2C Operating System ( Rev 148 )'
    
    He gets the following errors while trying to init the system disk.
    
            1) BASIC Installation
            2) ADVANCED Installation
    
            3) SYSTEM Management
    
    Enter your choice: 1
    
    *** SYSTEM DISK SELECTION ***
    
    The Installation Guide explains the following table
    of system disk drives.  Select one of the disks in the table
    to contain the root file system:
    
    SYSTEM DISK TABLE
    
    Selection   Device    Software    Device       Controller   Controller
                Name       Name       Number       Name         Number
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        1       RZ28        rz2          2         SCSI           0
        2       RZ28        rz3          3         SCSI           0
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Enter your choice: 1
    
    You selected RZ28, device number 2. Make sure this disk drive
    is online and write-enabled (if applicable to your disk drive), then
    confirm your choice.
    
    Use RZ28, rz2, for your system disk? (y/n) []: y
    
    
    Initializing the system disk RZ28, rz2...
    sh: /dev/null: cannot create
    Tape is not a dump tape
    
    The installation failed to restore the
    /var/adm/ris/ris0.alpha/product_001/ROOT image from the server.
    This error causes the installation procedure to stop.  One possible
    cause for the error is a corrupt system disk. You may want to replace
    the current disk or use another system disk, and begin the installation
    again. If this error message appears a second time, contact a Digital
    representative.
    /mnt: Device busy
    
    Devices mounted after installation attempt.
    
    # mount -d
    /dev/md0a on / type ufs (rw)
    nevcs3:/var/adm/ris/ris0.alpha/kit on /kit type nfs (v3, rw, hard,intr)
    root_domain#root on /mnt type advfs (rw)
    
    
    We have tried BASIC and ADVANCED installations with the same error.
    The following client is listed which is the client we are trying to
    load:
    Enter your choice: l
    
    The following clients are registered for /var/adm/ris/ris0.alpha:
    nevcs2
    
    He also wants to install 3.2G into RIS and swears the CD he loaded onto
    the RIS was 3.2G even though RIS reports it as 3.2C.
    
    Can he load 3.2G into RIS on a system running 3.2? What are the error
    messages he is receiving telling us?
    
    Ken

As a suggestion, have the user select the SYSTEM Management option, and
then do the following:

disklabel -z rz2
disklabel -rw rz2 RZ28

Then reattempt the RIS install.

Good Luck,
Tom Reu

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