I had great luck with 7.1. Including installing a new gateway laptop that 7.0 and earlier did not work with. X problems. Downloaded three images from a Red Hat mirror site, made CD-ROMs, and installed . Easiest RH install yet. <p>Bob <p>----- Original Message ----- From: Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:19 PM Subject: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install <p><em>> <em>> The Red Hat 7.1 CDs arrived from Cheapbytes and today I <em>> attempted to install. <em>> <em>> The Linux box has Rad Hat 6.1 working, and I have added <em>> but not formatted a second hard drive. <em>> <em>> Created the boot.img diskette on this machine. Put the <em>> 1st RH CD in the cd drive of the Linux box, the floppy in <em>> the first floppy drive and powered on. Up came the prompt <em>> to select how to boot. Typed in 'text' and enter. Did some <em>> loading, through vmlinuz, then upacked something -- lots <em>> of typical boot lines flashed by, asked for language and <em>> keyboard then message about anaconda, dying several <em>> times with error messages like exec input output error. <em>> <em>> Apparently got slightly different anaconda error with the <em>> graphical install vs text. <em>> <em>> Questions: <em>> (1) Anyone got a clue what is likely to be wrong? <em>> <em>> (2) In the meantime, how do I set up the second HD. <em>> Suspect I need to use Druid, but I didn't succeed in <em>> locating it. <em>> <em>> Choppy <em>> <em>> ================================================ <em>> BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> your subscription information. <em>> ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "[brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "[brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Reply:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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