By the way, you get to the other consoles by doing CTRL+F2 or F3 and so
on. I think RH's install makes use of 4 of them.
weston
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Benjamin -
>
> Are you installing off of a commercial CD, or a download/burned image? I
> downloaded and burned a RH 6.1/Sparc image, and I can't get it to install,
> either. I think it is a bad burn or image. The Intel CD I got from
> Cheapbytes is fine. Are there any other messages on any of the other
> consoles you can share with us?
>
> By the way, the "autopartitioning failed" message is normal. It just
> means that you chose a custom install, and there were no instrutions in
> the setup script for automatically creating the partitions for a
> Workstation or Server class install.
>
> If it turns out to be a bad CD, order a cheap CD from Cheapbytes
> (http://www.cheapbytes.com). I have had really great luck with their
> stock. Or, if you'd like, you can bring your system by our offices
> after 5pm and I'll let you do an install off our servers. I can't do it
> during the day because I'm teaching an accelerated Red Hat class for
> Dell Computer Corp, so I'll be pretty busy from 8 to 5 through Wednesday.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Cameron
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>
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Benjamin Bradley wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble installing RH6.1.
> > I downloaded the latest boot disk image from the site, and booted from a
> > floppy.
> > Using the text-mode installation (the GUI doesn't like me for some
> > reason), it goes through 'reading package information' then asks what
> > kind of vid card I have (SiS 530) and says that the Installation is to
> > Begin and it will record a log file in /tmp/install.log
> > The next thing I see is 'install exited abnormally' and 'received signal
> > 11'
> > I'm at a loss for what to do. Any help at all would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > I've tried booting from the CD, no difference. The only other error I
> > get is a 'Autopartitioning FAILED' on the install log screen (virtual
> > console 3) before it asks me how to partition the drives. I manually
> > partitioned it into something like 50M swap, 440M root and 250M /usr
> > (but it never asked to format the partitions).
> >
> > Please help!
> > Thanks in advance.
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