Re: Red Hat 6.2 Install

[A Brady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Sunday 04 February 2001 17:20, Jerry Human opined:
> I have a 20 gig hard drive that was in another machine as /dev/hdc with
> RH 6.2 installed at hdc3. The drive is now in a Compaq Presario 5000P
> series box with ADSL but as /dev/hdb and I want to reinstall RH 6.2 in
> the same partition with the new box setup. Unfortunately, the boot disk
> I made for the original install on hdc won't work for hdb and the
> install cd boots but hangs with a kernel panic error. How can I install
> RH 6.2 on this box?

Try, at the boot prompt on the floppy:

linux root=/dev/hdb3

If that works, run it up, change lilo.conf, rerun lilo, done.

If not, try running the CD with a boot image, preferably a newer one from a 
download, choose expert and text, or text as a minimum, and see if that 
gets the install going.

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