Uh... I don't know why, but the CD I have with RH5.0 installed nicely and
boots just fine. I used the partitions and mount points created with
RH5.1... hmmm
> From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: RH5.1 Install Woes
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> Date sent: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:04:04 +0000 (GMT)
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> Dear Richard, and others...
> Thanks for your help. I can't seem to get that far. To begin the
> install process I boot the computer with a floppy made from
> "boot.img" found in the "Images" directory on the RedHat CD
> (v5.1). The process takes me through partitioning, package
> selection, formatting and copies about 200mb of files to the hard
> drive. I get to question regarding "would you like to create a
> bootdisk?" I answer "yes", put in a new 1.44 diskette (in the same
> drive I booted from) and instead of coping anything to the diskette
> the error message "An Error Occured" is displayed. The option to
> "retry" is given, but the results are the same. When I move onto the
> next item, installing the boot loader, the same error message is
> given.
>
> > According to Jon Dowd: While burning my CPU.
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > During the insallation of RH5.1 "An Error Occured" message is
> > > displayed when I tried to create a bootdisk. No bootdisk was
> > > created. Same thing when I tried to install LILO. Please advise.
> > > Jon Dowd
> > >
> >
> > The most likly cause of that message is because you did not define the
> > mount-points correctly when Redhat tryed to create the file /etc/lilo.conf
> > or it did not get created at all.
> >
> > Tell us which option you used and if redhat boots ok after the install. ???
> >
> > If you cant boot linux then you can use the floppy which you used to start
> > the install to boot linux, at the first prompt type'
> >
> > mount root=/dev/hdaX where X is the partition number containing the root
> > file system.
> >
> > /dev/hda is the first H/D /dev/hdb is the second etc etc.
> >
> > After the system has started you can then check the file /etc/lilo.conf and
> > take appropriate action.
> >
> > --
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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