Re: 6.1 Net install problems

[Aaron Prohaska <aaron microkidz com>]

You say you downloaded all the RPMS files and did the upgrade from there, did you
ever try and use the boot disk to do a full install? I downloaded what I thought was
everything, but when I use a boot disk to start an ftp install (ftping from a
computer on my LAN) and the install starts, but then says: Can't find second stage
ramdisk file on server. Do know anything about this?

Thanks,
Aaron

"Raymond H. Kraft" wrote:

> aaron microkidz com said:
> > I am trying to install 6.1 using a network boot disk and it keeps
> > hanging after I put in the ftp info for it. It first loads the
> > secondstage ramdisk and then I get a blue screen that says: Welcome to
> > Red Hat Linux, this is where it dies everytime.
>
> I've had problems with the bootnet.img boot disk for RH6.1 as well.  For me it
> drew an exception when trying to look for currently installed packages under
> the Upgrade option.   I've posted this problem to the list and informed
> bugzilla redhat com --- no response.  I've basically given up on the automated
> upgrade and have simply downloaded all the RPMS and used gnorpm and kpackage
> to do the whole upgrade.  Worked fine.
>
> The error message went something like this:
>
> >        Reading package information ...
> >
> ><wait a few minutes>
> >
> >        Finding packages to upgrade ...
> >
> ><immediate error>
> >
> >The error message displayed was:
> >
> >               Exception Occurred
> >
> >Traceback:
> >
> >File /usr/bin/anaconda.real line 224 in ?
> >        intf.run(todo,test=test)
> >File /tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py line 1000 in run
> >        rc=apply(step[1](), step[2])
> >File /tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py line 251 in __call__
> >        todo.upgrade FindPackages(root)
> >File ./tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py line 1155 in
> upgradeFindPackages
> >        upgradeFindPackages packages=rpm.findUpgradeSet (self.hdList.hdlist,self
> >        .instPath)
> >rpm.error: error during upgrade check
> >
> >My current Linux root partition (my only non-swap partition) is /dev/sda2.
> At
> >the time of the "exception", I checked the mounted partitions from the shell
> >VC (df), and saw that my harddisk had NOT been mounted.  I was, however, able
> >to manually mount it at this point.
>
> Anyways, it's history for me now.  Hope it doesn't rear its ugly head again
> with the next RedHat release.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         -Ray Kraft
>
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