[98277] in RedHat Linux List
Re: install from hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TripKill)
Sat Nov 7 22:06:53 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 21:05:27 -0600
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From: TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com>
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Ed I have no helpful information to offer, however I can offer my
empathy. :)
I spent 4 days trying to get the bastard to work and had no luck
what-so-ever. I had the exact same error. If you find that HowTo please
let me know.
Trip
At 06:27 PM 11/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I'm trying to install Red Hat 5.2 from a hard drive but it tells me "error
>opening directory" :(
>
>I went over to a unix machine, downloaded the entire i386 directory, tarrged
>and gzipped it.
>Ended up with a file of around 425 megs. moved it over to my windows
>machine that has
>windows 95. Ungzipped and untarred it using winzip. Copied it to a hard
>drive and checked
>to see if I could see anything wrong. The names of the files and
>directories all looked
>proper. Turned the system off, moved the hard drive over to another system
>and plugged
>it in. Booted off the boot disk, specified install from hard drive, gave it
>the supplemental
>disk and when it prompts for the partition and directory, I tell it where to
>look and everything
>stops when it says, 'error opening directory'. The hard drive's a 3gig
>drive but I partitioned
>it out at 2047 to help make sure things are compatible back and forth. What
>am I doing
>wrong?
>
>I saw a HOWTO on this awhile back but I can't seem to find it. Anyone know
>where it is?
>
>-Ed
>
>
>
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