[97891] in RedHat Linux List
FW: Redhat 5.2 and installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noronha, Santosh)
Thu Nov 5 16:50:56 1998
From: "Noronha, Santosh" <SantoshN@intra.niddk.nih.gov>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:41:53 -0500
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When doing a hard-drive install, I download
1. \RedHat\base
2. \RedHat\RPMS
3. \images and
4. \dosutils
Using the dosutil rawrite I copy the images to floppy disks, and then boot up
with those disks for the rest of the install.
There is no need to download \RedHat\Instimage
Also when downloading the rpms, you can save yourself some time if you
download only the relevant XFree86 driver and Howto rpms :-)
(I download to a win95 partition and install from there).
What is the need/advantage of \RedHat\instimage?
SbN
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From: Ed Lazor[SMTP:elazor@hcs.state.or.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 7:05 AM
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: RE: Redhat 5.2 and installation
I'm just learning myself but I believe that you have to download
the entire structure of the RedHat directory:
\RedHat
\RPMS
\base
\instimage
\lib
\usr
\etc
\bin
When you store the directories RPMS, base, and instimage have to
branch from the / directory of the drive. An important thing to
note is that some of the file names are actually pointers to other
files within the same directory. Since DOS/Windows doesn't support
the unix pointers, I think you have to create two copies of the file
giving each it's separate name.
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