According to Shawn Craver: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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.
O like i said in my reply about this, "linux" is case sensative..
So it wont like DO$ ;-)
>
> --Shawn Craver
>
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Regards Richard.
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