The problem is finding a set of images which will work. I neglected to mention that I had ALREADY tried to do a network install. Originally the machine I'm trying to use had no CD-ROM drive, so I put the three iso images (the downloaded disc1 from ibiblio, and images from the two original discs 2 and 3 onto my working linux machine and exported them via NFS. Again everything seemed to be going well until the install machine complained about a corrupted source disk.
And yes, I'd carefully created the image files, using a shell script which used isoinfo to get the blocksize and block count from the discs and fed those to dd to make sure I got everything. I then checked the md5sums of the discs and the isofiles and everything looked copacetic. On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 09:43, Jason Tower wrote: > if you have a reasonably fast pipe you can do a ftp or http install. just > burn a CD from the boot.iso image found in /images on the first CD (which > you already have) and use a local mirror site. there are lots of docs on > the web with specific instructions on doing a network install. > > jason > > > Pardon me for jumping right in. > > > > I've been trying to install RH 9 on a box with a Cyrix processor. I > > bought the distro last year, and installed it on the machine from whence > > this e-mail is coming and have been running it with no problems. > > > > I put together another machine out of junk I've got lying around with > > the intent of moving some of my mail processing (like SpamAssassin > > filtering) and other jobs to it. I first ran into a problem that the > > boot disk wouldn't boot, and gave up after a while. I then ran across an > > little yellow paper which came with the distro which mentioned a new > > ISOs which solved problems on some processors including the Cyrix. I > > found this on the redhat FTP site, which was swamped, and several other > > mirrors. The disc1 iso (shrike-i386-disc1.iso) was dated September 3, > > 2003 and disk 2 and 3 were dated March 14 2003. > > > > Figuring I only needed a new disc1 I downloaded it from the ibiblio > > site. The hash matched, and I made a new boot diskette and went to town. > > However the mediacheck failed. So I went and downloaded the iso again > > from a duke mirror, but the same thing happened. Figuring I had nothing > > to lose, I went ahead with the install anyway. Everything seemed to be > > going OK until it asked for Disc 2. I popped in the original Disc 2 from > > my purchased set, and it spit it out with distaste saying it was the > > wrong disk. > > > > Okay, I now figured that I needed to get the corresponding discs 1 and > > 2, so I downloaded those from the duke site last night, checked the MD5 > > and burned a new disc 2, and popped it into the still waiting "patient" > > which promptly spit that disk out saying that IT wasn't the right disc. > > > > By now I've already got enough coasters with a Redhat 9 install logo on > > them. I'd appreciate any sage advice. > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
