[98321] in RedHat Linux List
Re: install from hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Sun Nov 8 03:09:54 1998
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 03:09:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
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>>>>> "el" == Ed Lazor <osmosis@navicom.net> writes:
el> I'm trying to install Red Hat 5.2 from a hard drive but it tells me "error
el> opening directory" :(
el> I went over to a unix machine, downloaded the entire i386 directory, tarrged
el> and gzipped it.
el> Ended up with a file of around 425 megs. moved it over to my windows
el> machine that has
el> windows 95. Ungzipped and untarred it using winzip. Copied it to a hard
el> drive and checked
el> to see if I could see anything wrong. The names of the files and
el> directories all looked
el> proper. Turned the system off, moved the hard drive over to another system
el> and plugged
el> it in. Booted off the boot disk, specified install from hard drive, gave it
el> the supplemental
el> disk and when it prompts for the partition and directory, I tell it where to
el> look and everything
el> stops when it says, 'error opening directory'. The hard drive's a 3gig
el> drive but I partitioned
el> it out at 2047 to help make sure things are compatible back and forth. What
el> am I doing
el> wrong?
Not quite sure why you are going through all the gyrations but if you
have it on the hard drive and the filenames are correct, just insert
the boot disk then the supp disk when it asks.
Then give the name of the partition such as '/dev/sda4' or whatever and
the path such as i386 only, NOT i386/RedHat. It knows to look for the
directory 'RedHat'.
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Ray Curtis Consultant/Programmer Curtis Consulting
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