[TriLUG] Help with RH9

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Mon Dec 8 15:41:16 EST 2003


Well as long as you can get to the internet via your XP box, you can do
an FTP install using one of the many, many mirrors out there (including
Trilug's):
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386

The install is done via text, but should work fine.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 12:10, Dasarathy Raghavan wrote:
> Woops.. messed up my last post ...
>  
> This linux box is an old e-machines one.. CD ROM is samsung .. works
> off an IDE controller.. so I dont know if it is SCSI .. 
>  
> as for NFS or FTP installs.. I am not sure if I can do it from home ..
> my other box is an XP-Home .. which I use to get to the internet using
> an ADSL modem .. the linux box also treats that XP-Home box as its
> gateway to get to the internet ...
>  
> Unfortunately, I am not able to get any reliable drivers for the ADSL
> USB modem on linux... else I would have ditched MS long ago
>  
> any suggestions on how to get around this one?
>  
> Thanks again in advance
> 
> Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>         That happens to me all the time on Compaq's. In my case I'm
>         fairly
>         certain that it is the scsi CD-rom (anaconda needs drivers for
>         the
>         controller added). No worries though, if your problem is the
>         same, you
>         can install via ftp or nfs, and the full install has no
>         problems with
>         the scsi CD-rom.
>         
>         I have the disks for RH9 loaded on a local server so I do my
>         installs
>         via NFS - it's actually a *lot* faster than installing from
>         the CD's.
>         
>         Jon Carnes
>         
>         On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 11:27, Dasarathy Raghavan wrote:
>         > I am trying to install RH9 ... I have the iso images of the
>         i386
>         > images downloaded.. but when I boot from a CD and select
>         Hard Drive
>         > installation and point it to the directory where I have the
>         images,
>         > the installer tells me that it does not find any iso images
>         on the
>         > directory on /tmp/hdimage/ ... What
>                 > am I doing wrong? FYI I have RH7 currently installed
>                 > 
>                 > Thanks in advance
>                 > 
>                 > 
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