On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Gammon, John P. wrote about, RH 5.1 to RH 6.1:
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> I am running RedHat 5.1 on a Dell Latitude P150 laptop. I have downloaded
> and burned a cdrom (from my 9x laptop) of the RH 6.1. I created a boot disk
> from the cdrom images per the instructions of the docs.
>
> When I boot the RH5.1 laptop with the setup boot disk, I can go through the
> initial setup screens. The setup process finally asks for the RH6.1 cdrom.
> When I say 'ok' with the interface program to find the CDROM, I get an error
> that the setup software cannot find RedHat.
I bet a pount to a penny you have burned the cdrom with a false directory
structure, this HAS happend before, i think you are the third or fourth
person with this same problem.
> I did look at the CDROM in RH5.1 and all of the files are there. It took
> three days but I was able to download all of the current software and
> directories on the ftp site (almost mirror).
I bet they are all there, but possably not in the correct directorys.
The correct dir struct is;
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 2048 Sep 27 16:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Mar 15 10:31 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 995 Sep 27 16:15 .buildlog
-rw-r--r-- 4 root root 18391 Mar 19 1999 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 3409 Sep 26 01:12 README
-rw-r--r-- 4 root root 1908 Sep 25 18:20 RPM-GPG-KEY
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Sep 27 16:15 RedHat/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 493 Sep 27 16:35 TRANS.TBL
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 538 Sep 26 04:16 autorun*
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 2048 Sep 27 16:35 boot.cat*
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 2048 Sep 27 16:15 doc/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 27 16:15 dosutils/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Sep 27 16:15 images/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Sep 27 16:15 misc/
dr-xr-xr-x 44 root root 6144 Jan 1 1970 rr_moved/
Note the way "RedHat" is spelt, i bet you have called it "redhat" right.?
In the RedHat directory are the install rpms.
On another note why dont people download an isoimage.??
An iso_image of RedHat-6.1 is bootable as well.
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> I am thinking that I may have to install RH6.1 by hand and am wondering
> where to start with this process. Any suggestions?
And just how would you go about doing it.??
> John
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Regards Richard
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