[101500] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Weird Installation Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Price)
Thu Nov 26 22:07:32 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:06:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Price <mpprice@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: Mike Price <mpprice@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: Matt Bell <bellm@sns-access.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <002001be198c$b5996f40$6ebafea9@p2300>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
I had to boot to the rescue disk, copy mv to /dev/hda1, sync, reboot to
the supplemental disk, mount /dev/hda1 as vfat, mv rpms to rpm to RPMS,
sync (this time sync might be superfluous), continue the install.
I had to do all this because the supplemental disk doesn't have mv---but
can mount vfat---while the rescue disk has mv---but can only mount msdos.
I also found that the supplemental disk would only mount /dev/hda1 vfat
OCCASIONALLY.
All of this seemed very embarrassing to RedHat after all the press they've
been gettng lately.
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Matt Bell wrote:
> I have RedHat 5.1 on CD-ROM but I decide to download the new 5.2 version.
> Since I'm not very familiar with linux yet I decide to do a totally clean
> install of the 5.2 version I downloaded. So I have my partitions all setup
> and everything seems ready for the new dos harddrive partition install. I
> get to the dialog box where the setup tells me to put where my RedHat
> install directory lies. Since it put it under my c: drive in C:\RedHat I
> type in \ I get a prompt that says "scanning packages", then quickly after
> that I get another prompt that says "Error opening directory" So I try a /,
> then /RedHat, but nothing seems to work and I keep getting the same error.
> So thus I cannot install RedHat 5.2 :( What am I doing wrong. I am sure I
> downloaded all the install files correctly and set everything up right.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Matt Bell
>
>
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