My other line of attempt to get RedHad 5.2 installed is to ftp the
distribution to my HD and do a hard-drive install. Needless to say, I've run
into problems with this approach as well.
My C drive has a regular old FAT (16) filesystem. I created c:\RedHat
and c:\RedHat\base and c:\RedHat\RPMS. I binary ftp'ed every file from
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386/RedHat/base/
to the base subdir and every file from
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
to the RPMS subdir (took about 1/2 an hour and less than 400MB, not bad).
Now I do the installation, saying no to PCMCIA and selecting hard-drive
install method. I get to the question "What partition and directory on that
partition hold the RedHat/RPMS and RedHat/base directories?" I select
/dev/hda1 (my Win98 FAT partition) and I'm not quite sure what to put as the
directory. "/RedHat" seems most correct to me, but I've tried just about
everything under the sun here all with the same results.
The next screen says: "Device hda1 does not appear to contain a Red Hat
installation tree." and bounces me back to the previous screen. Here's what
the other virtual consoles say:
F3:
* running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/vfat.o
* mounting hda1 on /tmp/dhimage as type vfat
* creating directory /tmp/hdimage rc = 0
* calling mount(/tmp/hda1, /tmp/hdimage, vfat, -1058209791, (nil))
* removing device file /tmp/hda1
* mounting hda1 on /tmp/dhimage as type vfat
* calling mount(/tmp/hda1, /tmp/hdimage, vfat, -1058209791, (nil))
* removing device file /tmp/hda1
Then these last 3 lines just repeat as I try different directory strings.
F4:
<4>Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
<4>Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)
And then these 2 lines repeat on each try.
F5 says nothing. I have a shell on F2. I can issue a mount command myself and
see my Win98 partition mounted from /dev/hda1 and it looks fine to the shell.
I can even cat base/hdlist for example and see some normal ASCII chars.
Anyone have any idea why it can't find installation tree?
-Karl
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