[TriLUG] Redhat 9 on Cyrix?

[Rick DeNatale]

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.
> >
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