[98614] in RedHat Linux List
Re: install from hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Kattner)
Mon Nov 9 20:16:09 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:13:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Craig Kattner <ckattner@sun.iwu.edu>
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This is correct. You need to install it from a ext2 fs I discovered today.
It's rather difficult to do a clean install in this way. I had to install
5.0 and then upgrade to 5.2 which is definitely not what I wanted to do.
I've got two ext2 partitions (one for home, one for everything else) and
want to wipe root and keep home but I don't have the room in home to put
everything there and then install from that partition. The problem seems
to stem from the case it sees stuff in. Specifically, the dir the the rpms
are in is RPMS but fat wants it to be Rpms and the installer pukes on
that.
> 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.
>
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