[97998] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat SCAM?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Fri Nov 6 05:47:35 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:42:11 -0600
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On Thu, 05 Nov 1998, TripKill sniveled:
>Alright...this may sound outrageous, and I'm not making a threat. To
>tell the truth I'm probably doing this more out of frustration than reason.
> After having serious trouble installing Red Hat 5.2 after downloading it,
>I started to think that maybe there is a reason behind having to go through
>all of this trouble. 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.......
I won't call you out of line as I haven't experienced this recently.
_BUT_ my first install of RH was with 4.2 and I did it from hard drive
to a laptop that had no CD drive. Worked like a cham except for one
XFree86 file which was corrupt on the CD it was copied from. I did this
entire thing in a roundabout way but, the hard part was getting it from
CD to the hard drive of the laptop. The install worked perfectly (save
the one RPM that was bad anyway).
There's also (besides your take) the possibility that:
1. The directory structure is wrong on your drive.
2. Filenames were mangled in the download ('Doze and do$ will do that
especially, NT is worse).
3. One or more files was corrupted in the download.
4 Other possibilities that I can't even bring to mind at the moment.
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