Installing RHEL4 from ftp

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 19:52 +0800, toufique shakh wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I need your help in installing linux from ftp.
> Installation guide from Redhat site says that it can be done in 2 ways,
> 1. copying all rpm from 4 cd's & placing them together in one directory RPM ie under Install/RedHat/----------base
>               |__________RPMS *.
> 
> and
> 
> 2. mounting all 4 cd's or their ISO's under disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4
> 
> ie /Install/Disk1
> - - - - - - Disk2
> - - - - - - Disk3
> - - - - - - Disk4
> 
> and finally making Install directory visible to ftp client.
> 
> 1st one works perfectly for me,
> but when i tried the 2nd option, i was getting error while installing package hwdata-0.146.12.EL.1 rpm which is actually located in 2nd ISO mounted under /Install/Disk2/ .

What error are you getting?

> I think redhat gets disk1 without any problem, but it is not getting disk2.

Is hwdata the first RPM that the system wants off CD 2?

> FYI
> i am mounting all 4 iso's using command "mount /RHEL_CD_x ../Installation/Diskx", where x is 1,2,3,4.
> 
> 
> any help appreciated.

Have you done md5sums or sha1sums of the CD images before trying the
installs?

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