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RE: Hardrive Install

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Tue Nov 10 00:16:17 1998

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:15:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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>>>>> "pb" == Paul Boccaccio <pboccaci@cgocable.net> writes:

pb> Hunter it should  but it is does not.. An I did pick hda5 and and the path..
pb> and it still comes up with that  error...

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hUnTeR [mailto:hunter@esprit.net]
>> Sent: November 9, 1998 11:21 PM
>> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Hardrive Install
>> 
>> 
>> Paul Boccaccio wrote:
>> >
>> > I am trying to install RedHat5.2 .. I downloaded 5.2 from
>> Sunsite.unc.edu
>> > /i386/redhat .After I pick the drive the files are in ,Redhat
>> comes up with
>> > this error :  Device hda5 does not appear to contain a Redhat
>> install tree
>> > ..
>> > The files are in  d:\i386\redhat\rpms d:\i386\redhat\base.. Any
>> help would
>> > be appreciated..
>> 
>> it should pick up the partition/drive, if not tell it hda5 and just the
>> path to the i386 directory of the downloaded stuff, it will find the
>> rest  :-)

If what I see above is correct then it won't work, it is looking for a 
directory called 'RedHat', note the upper case. 

i386
    RedHat


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