Re: AS200 rh5.1 install problem

[larrys lexis-nexis com (Larry Snyder)]

I can't say for sure -- my biggest is about 1.8.  I had this problem
with two ptn's around 1.02 and the 1.8, though, so it wasn't a problem
dealing with >2G.  And retrying it worked.  I have a couple of co-workers
that just recently jumped on the AS200 bandwagon.  They're doing the ARC
thing, while I'm (at least so far) strictly SRM.  If they have any light
to shed on this, I'm sure they'll speak up.  (John, Terry -- ideas?)
BTW, I used fdisk rather than the druid...I think in either case you're
calling mke2fs to do the actual filesystem creation.
-ls-

"Daniel A. Theobald" <theo@vecnatech.com> wrote:
> 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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