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Re: Installation of RH5.2 error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Mon Nov 16 11:04:04 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:52:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
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>>>>> "c" == cdodd <cdodd@kemperjapan.com> writes:
c> From: "Mark Harney" <mharney@ionet.net>
c> Hi, I just joined this list and I am full of questions!
c> I am having trouble installing Linux RedHat 5.2 on a workstation at home,
c> and the error comes after the point when you create your Linux and swap
c> partitions. Once the screen comes up asking where the two directories are
c> located, namely \RedHat\base and \RedHat\RPMS (I'm installing from a hard
c> drive - downloaded from wcarchive.cdrom.com using a T1), I specify the
c> location that the HDD cranks a little, and an error comes up about a
c> directory not found. I have done a compare between the site and the drive
c> directory tree and cannot seem to pinpoint what is missing from the install
c> set. Can someone help with this? What *has* to be there for the install
c> to
c> work. I can provide a listing of these trees if it will help. Is there
Just tell it the path to the RedHat directory and don't give it the
name RedHat since that is what it is looking for. Thus if it is in /
directory just give the path /.
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Ray Curtis Consultant/Programmer Curtis Consulting
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