[TriLUG] Mirroring RedHat 9 -- Net Install FTP/Boot CD issue

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:12, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> I rsync'ed the RHAT Linux 9 distribution from Ibiblio.org for a local 
> FTP server that I've set up.  I know that there is a known issue with 
> the network/ftp install that has supposedly been resolved:
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88884

[snip]
> 
> I get the "Retrieving /base/netstg2.img" but after the pre-configuration 
> phase during "Reading package information..." I get "Unable to read 
> header list.  This may be due to a missing file or bad media.  Press 
> <return> to try again."
> 
> Is there away to get the FTP install to work using the bootable 
> installer CD (typically located at 
> /home/redhat/9/en/os/i386/images/boot.iso)?
> 

Did you start up the installer with "linux updates" ?  I think you have
to do that to prompt it to read the updates.img.

--Jeremy

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