Gene Mayler wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm trouble installing Red Hat 5.2. I have a 486dx66, 24mb RAM and 2 HDs.
> hda1 and hda5 are dedicated to DOS/Windows 3.1. hdb1 is the linux root
> partition and hdb2 is the linux swap partition. I have successfully made
> the boot floppy and supplimental floppy and they work. I have been able to
> partition hdb and format the swap partition.
>
> I am trying to install from hda5 which has these directories:
>
> D:\REDHAT\BASE
> \RPMS
>
> I have the all the files that I found at Sunsite in the BASE directory and
> all of the RPM files in the base section of the comps file in the RPMS
> directory except for LIBG++ and LIBSTDC++. Netscape just will not save them
> to my HD. It must not like the ++ in the file name.
>
> When I try to install, I get this message:
>
> Device hda5 does not appear to contain
> a Red Hat installation tree.
>
> What is the secret trick to making this work?
>
> Thanks,
I had simmilar problems about 3 months ago with RH 5.2. The way I finally
solved it was to reformat my empty second Windows partition as ext2 and put
the install files in that directory. For what ever reason, the RH install
program doesn't seem to like MS partitions. And also make sure that the case
of the directory names is exactly like on the ftp site or CD.
--Shawn Craver
