5.2 install disaster

[Armin Ollig <armin data tops net>]

ok,
yesterday i decided to install the new rh 5.2 on my alpha. Since i dont
believe in any upgrade machanism i tried a new installation on another hd
and then copy some valuable config files by hand. 
Here're comes the bug parade:

- The milo, boot and ramdisk worked fine, disk partitioning also worked

- I was not able to load a network card module to install via network
  The error was "/bin/insmod not found"

- So i switched to the shell mounted my old system and did copy 
  insmod to /bin

- I was *still* not able to load a module the error was
  "/modules does not exist" or such

- I mkdir /modules and did copy the appropriate module to /modules

- Hurray! The install programm now was able to load a network module

- After i picked the packages the install programm 
  "Terminated on signal 11"

- I did all this again with another set of floppies, but with the same
  result.

Also, kernel 2.0.34 was very stable and i never had a problem with it.
2.0.35 crashes at boot time when a slice was not cleanly unmounted while
fscking. 2.0.35 does not run longer than 2 hours when the box is under
load.

Any suggestions ?

best regards,
-armin
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| Armin Ollig       UNIX Systems Administration       armin@tops.net  |
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