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Re: redhat-digest Digest V96 #438
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter B Kulecz PhD)
Thu Oct 31 11:39:22 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:41:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Walter B Kulecz PhD <wally@wahine.jsc.nasa.gov>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: djb@redhat.com, support@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610310521.AAA07745@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 djb@redhat.com wrote:
4.0 is a stable system that does install fine in most cases
from CD-ROM (at least as easily as 3.0.3). Those "customers"
should be happy. It had bugs in the FTP install which we
regret, but have likely fixed. It has some updates that are
required, but we've made that as painless as we can as well.
I'm a CDROM customer that can't install. I've posted to the list twice
already and got nada useful response.
There may be a fix but I've no clue.
Basically I get to the writing lilo step totally without error (even the
mouse works in the metroX install dialog! which I gather is rare) and then
it bombs with a thouroughly useless and unhelpful dialog box when lilo
fails to install.
Why it fails is obvious, getting a shell with Alt-F2 shure looks like all
the rpms upacked to my disk partitions. Running a few simple random
commands from /mnt/bin and /mnt/usr/bin seem to work but there is no
fstab or lilo.conf anywhere to be found. The system booted from the
floppy is too different from "normal" for me to have had any success
trying to manually create the proper lilo.conf. I can make a
/mnt/etc/fstab and boot the floppy with "linux root=/dev/hda1" but I get
a ton of errors. Fsck seems to fix them but the reboot hangs, obviously
the install seems to do the rpms but never writes the config files. How
can this work for *anyone* as I get 300+ MB written to disk
apparently OK, but then all the config files seem to >/dev/null.
I've tried the alternate aic7xxxboot.img, exact same behavior, but since
the original did everything but the last step what is being done last that
could be "SCSI controller" dependent?
IS mixed IDE/SCSI installs the problem? I have: / on hda1 for 64MB, swap
on hdab for 64MB, and /usr on 2940 SCSI sdb1 for 540MB, all seven of my
SCSI drives are found and reported correctly. I use an IDE CDROM. If any
of these devices are the problem, how do the rpm installed files appear in
the /mnt directory?
I sent my first message to sales@redhat.com asking for a fix or an
RMA and have only recieved the auto reply, is there some other place that
needs to be notified? I'd rather a fix but I've wasted all the time I
can afford trying to figure it out for myself.
As I see it y'all are making great effort to fix ftp installs for people
with tons of time to get redhat "for free" and ignoring what problems
(few they may be) of those of us with the "official" cd and book.
--wally.
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