Re: Trouble installing

[Eric Larson <rlarson monmouth com>]

Windows doesn't preserve UNIX file permissions and is not
case sensitive to file names. Therefore what you are trying doesn't work.

It's a lot easier to order the $1.98 CD from www.cheapbytes.com than
downloading all that stuff.

On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 01:49:13PM -0600, John R. Mariotti wrote:
> I've downloaded the ever so large amount of files to install Red Hat
> Linux 6.1 But after I set the LILO during the installation and it starts
> to prepare to do the actual install, while it's "Reading Package
> Information" to be exact. I get this error
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File
> "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 225, in?
> intf.run (todo, test = test)
> File
> "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 1000, in un
> rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
> File
> "/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.1/i386/misc/src/trees/hdimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/textw/packages.py",
> line 10, in __call__
> File
> "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 930, in getHeaderList
> .selfhdList =
> self.method.readHeaders()
> File
> "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/harddrive.py", line 46, in readHeaders
> return HeaderList(hl)
> File
> "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/comps.py", line 50, in __init__
> name = L[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME]
> TypeError: unsubscriptable object
> 
> Now is there something else that I need to download? Or is there
> something that I messed up completely? I'm running a Windows 98 system,
> and I meet all the minimum system requirements. The only thing from the
> RPMS directory that I did not download where the howto's in the various
> other languages than english. As I don't speak or read those languages
> but I got all the rest.
>