Re: Can't Install RedHat

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 00:00

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|I cannot install RedHat off of the Infomagic CDROM.
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|I created the boot disk and then selected the single disk install option.
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|I set my CDROM drive up as /dev/hdb but after it mounts the CDROM drive
|as the root filesystem the install stops and will not progress any
|further.
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|I tryed installing slackware on this and another machine but I cannot get
|it to accept the Ramdisk (root disk) after the inital boot: (where extra
|parameters are entered if required).
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|Can anyone help - this seems like it is something simple - afterall,
|everybody else seems to have been able to install it ok.
|
|Matthew.

I've heard some people report that single floppy install only works off
the genuine RedHat CDs, not copies of them, due to the directory
layout.  If you think about, it makes sense, because the root directory
of the CDROM has to be set up for mounting as root, and Infomagic has
several Linux distributions on it, meaning they can't structure the
root directory just for RedHat single floppy install. But you can still
do the 3 floppy install.

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