Installing RedHat 6.1 from HD

Stephen

Hi - I downloaded RedHat 6.1 (~600mb), made the boot floppy as instructed, but...
- The "graphical" installer just doesn't work. It boots the text installer every time.
- When the text installer boots, I set up my language and keyboard and the location of the RedHat files... then it says "Welcome to RedHat 6.1" and proceeds to set up a RAM disk... and then it just puts up a blue screen and does sweet **** all.
Can anyone help? I'm using the PCMCIA.IMG for the boot disk, since that's what the manual says to do for HD installations.

- |IAR|Munch
- http://iarclan.cjb.net - currently down

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Gavin

Do you ever actually post anything of any help to anyone ?

As to Stephens question.. What way do you have it setup, like where are the files stored .. what sort of partitioning ?

Gav

toil

hmmm i would say just use the
boot.img and boot the disk...
there is an option in that for installing from the HD.....might as well try it?

Stephen

I used the boot.img ... there doesn't seem to be any HD installation option in that...
The files are in C:\RedHat\ ...I haven't got as far as partitioning anything yet. The only things I have got to setup are keyboard and language. Anyone have any idea why the new graphical installer, as featured on RedHat's site, refuses to work? Whenever I pick the graphical install option, it just goes to text mode anyway.

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- http://iarclan.cjb.net currently down

Ronin

um, get someone to burn u the iso and install it from cd ...

na seriously, I`ll d/l it on saturday and give it a shot, cause x won`t work properly in 6.0 with my v3...

cornel linux is ok, but there isn`t much that comes with it..having to d/l the kernel is a bit lame, include one..

Ro, who might have some anwsers after the weekend..

quozl

Be very suprised if anyone can help you over boards, sorry to say. Text install is more tricky, need hands on. I'd suggest buying cd for 2 quid from www.cheapbytes.com, thats how i get mine. You have a nice silver cd, with all you need on hand. And it boots from cd and is really easy. Or failing that, email me, ggfarrel@tcd.ie or ring me on 088-2160870 and if you meet me in dublin (hope you live there i'll lend you my rh 6.1 cd if you want.
Quozl

Stephen

Well, I got Mandrake 6.1 from the PCAnswers CD - It has Corel WordPerfect 8 for linux on the CD too... installed it successfully (apparently)[It also has an app that will make it run on a FAT32 partition, didn't use it], but when I boot Linux, it gives me error messages (I can't recall whatthey were at the moment) and dumps me at a terminal screen once I enter the root password. Is there a Linux equivalent to MSDOS Scandisk? I think the hard drive I installed it on may be causing the problem - its an old 2GB drive with its fair share of bad sectors.

BTW, I live in Kilkenny, not Dublin
Any ideas why the graphical installer for RH6.1 wouldn't work? My graphics card is a bog standard Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI (2mb).

Thanks for any help...

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Stephen

Okay, so I booted Linux, and copied down the error msg:

"Checking root filesystem
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: fsck: command not found

*an error occurred during the filesystem check"

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SantaHoe

That doesn't sound too good
Any chance you could re-install it?

Stephen

Yeah, I reinstalled it (successfully, apparently). And then I run into another damn problem - when I boot linux, I get to a screen containing a dodgy ascii image of that penguin and some info on my system (eg, P200MMX 64MB RAM, etc, and "localhost.localdomain") - also on this screen is a "localhost login" prompt. No matter what the hell I type here it does nothing. Root password, user password/name, anything... I get no results. Anyone have any ideas on *that* one?

(I don't think Linux likes me much )

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Stephen

Okay, I just visited the PCAnswers website - Apparently the Mandrake 6.1 cd got mangled during the duplication process, and it is *impossible* to login. They're planning to release some kind of fix during the week.

Woo. So that wasn't *my* problem then

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Koopa

ive used a few distributions, have to say i like SuSE or Slackware linux the best, because they seem more secure/logical in their configuration

im using FreeBSD right now, and it was a pain to install and get ppp for modem working, but once the system is up and running its fairly close to linux, supposed to be more secure though.. linux fdisk is still the best, and lilo has to be the best and most configurable bootloader ive used so far.
freebsd bootloader is extremely basic, and its fdisk doesnt let you do as much as linux fdisk, even though freebsd has a better filesystem in my opinion


[This message has been edited by Koopa (edited 03-12-1999).]