On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Gammon, John P. wrote about, RE: RH 5.1 to RH 6.1:
> How would I go about burning the cdrom with the correct dir struct? I
> ftp/mirrored the information down from the ftp site at redhat and the burned
> the cdrom from that directory.
I have posted the dir struct before to the list, someone else was having a
simalar problem at that time, he followed the strcut and burned a cdrom
which apparently worked.
> Also, the .iso image is not working for me. I downloaded the image file and
> began the burning software and it could not open the .iso file. I am using
> the software that came with my Sony Spressa. It says that the image is not
> a global or .iso image file.
I dont know, but i sometimes have to change iso file names to suit cdraost,
which is the program i use.
I now have made it my policy to change all *.iso files to something like;
image1.iso
It has not let me down so far.
>
> Any help?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: Gammon, John P.
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RH 5.1 to RH 6.1
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Gammon, John P. wrote about, RH 5.1 to RH 6.1:
> >
> > 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.
>
> >
> > 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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> > John P. Gammon
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> >
>
> --
> Regards Richard
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