[98553] in RedHat Linux List
Re: install from hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Lazor)
Mon Nov 9 17:47:15 1998
From: "Ed Lazor" <osmosis@navicom.net>
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:41:44 -0800
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Heya Trip, figured I'd follow-up on this for ya. I finally got
the darn install to work from the hard drive but ... there's a
catch. I installed 5.1 on the system, and then downloaded
the entire 5.2 i386 directory. I created the boot and supp
disk and then ran the 5.2 install. It worked...
I think that having the files untar to a linux file system is
what did the trick. In other words, it would be really
helpfull if Red Hat would make their install file
system independent.
That may not actually help but I still wanted to let you know
how I got around it just in case it might.
-Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: install from hard drive
> 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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