[100273] in RedHat Linux List
Re: CANNOT OPEN DIRECTORY on installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Segei Kulakovsky)
Thu Nov 19 13:23:09 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:21:17 +0000
From: Segei Kulakovsky <sk@ars.ml.org>
Reply-To: sk@ars.ml.org
To: Mike Price <mpprice@midway.uchicago.edu>
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Mike Price wrote:
>
> My machine has two hard drives. One has win95. The win95 disk has the
> directories \c:\RedHat\base and \c:\RedHat\RPMS. These directories have
> all the files for a complete installation of RedHat 5.2.
>
> In the "Find Installation Files" step of the installation, I enter
> /dev/hda1 for the device and / for the "name of the partition containing
> the RedHat/base and RedHat/RPMS."
>
> When I press <enter>, I get CANNOT OPEN DIRECTORY. What could be wrong?
> Most other pathnanames I try say "no RedHat installation filesystem found
> on /dev/hda1" (or something like that.)
>
1. Your /dev/hda1 should be fat16, not fat32. Installation program
(precisely - kernel) does not recognize fat32 partition. In future you
can include fat32 support in your custom kernel. To convert your fat32
partition to fat16 with any lost of data you can use PartitionMagic
program.
2. Does your /dev/hda1 contain RedHat/base and RedHat/RPMS directories ?
--
Sergei Kulakovsky.
e-mail: sk@ars.ml.org
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