Hallo to everyone:
I got a problem triying to install Mandrake 7.2 throught FTP
My computer doesnt have a CDROM, but got a network card. So i create a boot
disk with the network.img.
1) Booting the machine with the disk, I select as Installation Method = FTP
2) it detect correctly my network card
3) As boot protocol I choose = DHCP and it gets an IP.
4) After this I gave a hostname an select the FTP Site and Mandrake
directory.
5)After this a screen popup saying:
Retrieveng base/mdkinst_stage2.gz
and
Loading second stage ramdisk
6) After this a message saying.
"install exited abnormally -- received signal 9
sending terminations signals... done
sending kill signals...done
unmounting filesystems...
/proc
/tmp/stage2
you may safetely reboot your system
7) If a change to another console I can see the messages:
running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/af_packet.o
in loadDeviceDriver, ks = 0, typName = ethernet
pci probing for ethernet devices
pci probe found 1 ethernet devices
found driver for Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
running : /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/eepro100.o
configuring eth0 ip: 192,168.1.45 nm:255.255.0.0 nw:192.168.1.0
bc:192.168.1.255
reverse name lookup failed
configuring lo ip: 127.0.0.1 nm: 255.0.0.0. nw: 127.0.0.0 bc:
127.255.255.255
transfering ftp://192.168.1.100/pub/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz to a fd
mounting ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2
creating directory /tmp/stage2 rc = 0
calling mount (/tmp/ram3, /tmp/stage2, ext2, -1058209792, (nil))
removing device file /tmp/ram3
method selection completed
writing network information to /tmp/ifcfg-eth0
state saved to /tmp
symlink /tmp/stage2 failed
If someone could bring me some light about this. Because i can see what is
happens.
The binaries (are from a cd) are ok because i used to install on another
computer (booting directly from the cd and the installation runs correctly),
and the only think that I made is put them on my ftp server.
(Yes, yes I know that I could put a cdrom on the computer and install
throught the CD but I think that is more interestting do it throught FTP)
I´ll be very thankfull to those that can give me an answer with any
sugestion.
Thanks.
