ISC 2.2 Installation Troubles

[Art Neilson]

In article <26825 at infotel.UUCP> paul at infotel.UUCP (paul) writes:
>In article <1990Jun22.052443.184 at pilikia.pegasus.com>, art at pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes:
>> Has anyone had any difficulties installing the new ISC 2.2 release ??
>
>	Yes I have the same problem
>
>> After inserting the install
>> disk, I hit enter and an INTERACTIVE Operating Systems copyright
>> notice appears.  The system reads the floppy for a minute or so after
>> this, and another copyright notice appears.  The system reads the floppy
>> for about 30 seconds more, then stops.  forever.
>
>	After breaking out and modifing all the install scripts to do
>	echo's after almost every step, the problem seems to be in their
>	user interface (ui).
>
>> ISC 2.0.2 installs *just fine* on my system, it's quite stable.
>> I suppose some configuration info may be helpful, so here goes ;^) I have
>> a 33MHz 386 TransComputer main board with 8MB RAM, and a ST4383E hard
>> disk driven by an Adaptec 2322B-8 controller.
>
>	My system is a 33Mhz NIC system (micronics knock off)
>	with 8MB ram 32K cache, pheonix bios,
>	a micropolis 1588 & cdc wren 7 on an adaptec
>	1542 controler and a monochrome display adapter.  I have tried
>	different diaplay adapters up thru VGA with no help (Interactive
>	said it _had_ to be a bad display adapter).  I installed these
>	same disk as a test on another machine without problems to 
>	remove any doubt as to the integrety of the disk's.
>
>Just give me the old fashion install scripts without pick lists and 
>all the fancy stuff and I sure it would install.
>
>Paul Bilke
>StarTel Inc.
>(texsun|ut-emx)!infotel!paul	1(409)779-2830)

Well, at the suggestion of several people I pulled my hard drive and
controller, went over to the local computer store and hooked up my
drive to a 386 Micronics 20Mhz motherboard.  My ISC 2.2 installed
*just fine*.  Problem fixed I thought, after all I had gotten net mail
from a guy in Australia who had done this same thing to bypass the 
2.2 install hang problem.  I took my drive home with the new ISC  
release installed on it, put it back in my system and fired the 
system up.  Lo and behold, the kernel panic'ed.  Below you can
see the gory details firsthand:

PANIC:
cr0 0xFFFFFFED    cr 0x3FCBB100  cr3 0x00002000   tlb 0x0000118C
 ss 0x00000EB0  uesp 0x00000080  efl 0x00010212   ipl 0x00000000
 cs 0x00000158   eip 0xD0011FBE  err 0x00000002  trap 0x0000000E 
eax 0x00000000   ecx 0x00000020  edx 0x00000000   ebx 0x00000000
esp 0xE0000E70   ebp 0xE0000E88  esi 0x3FCBB100   edi 0x3FCBB100
 ds 0x00000160    es 0x00000160   fs 0x00000000    gs 0x00000000

PANIC:  Kernel mode trap.  Type 0x0000000E
Trying to dump 1952 Pages
.......................................... ad nauseum ......
1952 Pages dumped

Press any key to reboot

The panic occurred right after the following message was displayed
during system startup:

INTERACTIVE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM (1-2 USER LICENSE) SERIAL NUMBER: xxxxxx

This pretty much proves that the install disks aren't defective, what
we have here is a major incompatibility with the new release 2.2 and 
my TransComputer 386 33Mhz motherboard.  Interactive Hollis has pretty
much washed their hands of my problem, so I'll have to hope and pray
that ISC Santa Monica can work with Transcomputer and come up with
a fix ... otherwise I will have thrown several hundred dollars down
the proverbial toilet.
-- 
Arthur W. Neilson III		| ARPA: art at pilikia.pegasus.com
Bank of Hawaii Tech Support	| UUCP: uunet!ucsd!nosc!pegasus!pilikia!art