The time wasting effort was attempting to install, RH 5.2 RH 6.0 L-M 5.3 and L-M 6.0 on the following system:
Plain vanilla CD (A Goldstar with IBM warranty tested and known good on another system was substituted during the effort)
Seagate 52520 HDD (loaded with Windoze 98 with some non-relocatable
data 2 Gig out on a 2.4Gb drive)
Seagate 38641A HDD loaded with nothing, but previously tested for L-M
6.0 install on a different system
Ordinary Floppy
6x86MX-200 clocked at 150 (2x75) and also at 133 (2x66) (All tests
repeated at lower speed)
Intel 430 (TX) chipset Motherboard was a J-Mark J-5TXC
32 Mb SDRAM (non PC100) Tested at 83 MHz on another system
OK First cut.
Installed L-M 6.0 on /dev/hdb1-7 /dev/hda was /dos mount.
Installation completed.
Running produced errors. CD mounted but rpm database was inaccessible.
Logout destroyed filesystem(s) on /dev/hdb
Second cut
Removed 52520 and set 38641 to /dev/hda1-7. Install script produced "Mount failed, Invalid parameter" SOMETIMES and at other times error 11 at which point it would shut down processes and tell me I could safely reboot. This was after all formatting, when the install was ready to proceed.
THird cut
Swapped out CD. Tried various configurations of IDE0/IDE1 attachment and master/slave settings. Results unchanged.
Fourth Cut
Swapped out memory
Results unchanged
The wonder of it all is that Windoze98 installed on the 38641. My next step was to try Lnx4win, but then I read the newbie digest and saw that a similar problem was encountered by someone trying Lnx4win on a Dell notebook.
There appears to be some peculiar BIOS/HDD/Install Script interaction I cannot track down. (A little early in the process for error logs, and the disk files are ALWAYS trashed (even to weird names in the partition table) by the time I am able to try to read them on another system.
Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Civileme
-- expert wannabe
