[97984] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat SCAM?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Fri Nov 6 01:24:26 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:22:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <36428CB9.8C0A7668@nook.net>
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>>>>> "rg" == Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net> writes:
rg> TripKill wrote:
>>
>> Alright...this may sound outrageous,... Most everyone I talk
>> to say it is very hard to
>> install Red Hat from the hard-drive and just easier to buy the cd......see
>> what I'm getting at yet? I never had problems with Slackware. Well, I
>> might as well just come out and say it...You suppose that Red Hat does that
>> for a reason...I mean, the reason that I can't install Red Hat from the
>> hard-drive (according to many ppl in #LINUX) is that windows makes rpms
>> instead or RPMS and there is no way around it. So that means, I'll have to
>> break-down and buy the cd. I'm sure that Red Hat is aware of this
>> problem.......
>>
>> I'm a LINUX newbie, and if I'm completely out of line I would like to
>> hear about it.......
rg> You are out of line. If you buy the boxed CD, it has a manual. In
rg> the manual it says that hard drive installation is POSSIBLE but
rg> not recommended (or supported).
Yes, he is most definitely out of line. I just tried a harddisk
upgrade tonight on one of my machines and it worked for the most
part, I did have to fix a couple of things but that was my fault.
I suspect from the sound of it he just doesn't have the correct file
names for the rpms.
All you have to do is after doing the boot disk and the supp disk
when it gets to the source select the root partition and give the
complete path to the directory 'RedHat' and it should do the rest.
--
Ray Curtis Consultant/Programmer Curtis Consulting
mailto:ray@ray.clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
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