| sean finney on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:10:13 -0500 |
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:41:23PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:15:23PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > hmm.. well reading through Configure.help[1] i see something[2] that > > Kernel config options don't do me a lot of good when I'm trying to > *install*... right, but you could at least check for those options in the kernel configs for whatever you're using to install, right? also, in the case that the rh install doesn't do it for you, you could compile a kernel and make your own boot disk that does what you need and then drops you into the install process. > Using the RH 7.3 install CD's driver disk makes the installer > actually try to load drivers (as opposed to not finding any hardware > it has a driver for, which is what it does with the RHAS 2.1 install > CD), but it loads both mptscsih and mptbase, hangs for a second, > reload mptbase, then reloads mptscsih twice. So something ain't > right. have you tried doing this manually? the last time i seriously tried installing something with redhat was a while back, but i'm pretty sure they either give you a root shell or have a command-line install mode that'd let you do it. > And ftp.redhat.com seems to be a bit flaky at the moment... and of course our favorite swarthmore mirror is only mirroring 8.x now. maybe you should just tell your boss that redhat doesn't support the computer and put debian on it :) sean Attachment:
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