Re: AS200 rh5.1 install problem

["Daniel A. Theobald" <theo vecnatech com>]

Thanks for the tip Larry,
Someone else told me that the rh install can't format partitions bigger than 2
gig...
Is this true by your experience?
daniel

Larry Snyder wrote:

> Hi Dan --
> I ran through three different disks (hard drives) in the process of
> building my first AS200.  Not problems, just size upgrades.  Anyhow,
> it gave me the opportunity to do the install three times.  During the
> process, I had to recreate my ramdisk.img floppy a couple of times.
> Once or twice I hung where you did, and once or twice I had trouble
> mounting the scsi cdrom.  I suppose it could have been a ram problem,
> but re-dd'ing the ramdisk image got me going again every time.  Last
> time around I write-protected 'em....
> HTH
> -ls-
>
> "Daniel A. Theobald" <theo@vecnatech.com> wrote:
> > My thanks to Joseph Blaylock for the tip on bad memory hanging up the
> > install.  I went out and got 2 16 meg simms, and I was able to proceed
> > with the install.....
> >
> > but now have run into other problems:
> >
> > The first time through the install it got about half way through
> > installing the packages when it started complaining that there was no
> > more space available.  That really surprised me because I made all the
> > partitions at least as big as the biggest size recommended in the RH
> > install docs.  SO after getting tired clicking through a long line of
> > dialog boxes telling me that it could not copy, I decided (perhaps a
> > poor decision) to powercycle the machine and start over making the /usr
> > partition bigger.  I did this and things seemed to go fine until it got
> > to the point of
> >
> > installing ext2 filesystem on sda6 (or something like that)
> >
> > it just hung there forever.  and the same thing happens each time I try
> > it.  HELP!
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Much thanks in advance!
> > daniel.
> >
> > ps.  Have any of you been able to get installation support from RH?  The
> > only reason I bought the cd was so I would get the installation
> > support.  My problem tikets seem to have dissappeared into a vast void.
> > I have still gotten no response from tickets entered over two weeks
> > ago!  Why is this?  (frusterated)
> >
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