RH4 installation

Tom Callahan callahant at tessco.com
Thu Jan 5 18:29:54 UTC 2006


Updated ISO's are available on http://rhn.redhat.com. Select "Channels"
on the top red bar, and then select "Easy ISO's" on the gray left bar.

Thanks,

Tom Callahan
TESSCO Technologies
(443)-506-6216
callahant at tessco.com

A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on the forehead get too noticeable.



Ramer Ortega wrote:

> Hi Scully,
>
> From where can I download the Update ISO?  I have RH4.0 CDs but it's
> installation kernel cannot detect my SATA disk controller (Intel
> ICH7R).  I tried manually loading the driver during the installation
> (using the expert mode) but it won't proceed and the installation script
> will simply reboot the server.
>
> TIA.
>
> Michael Scully wrote:
>
>> Larry:
>>
>>     I can't help you with your specifics, but I tried installing RHEL ES
>> 4 on a machine whose SATA chipset (Intel's) wasn't supported on the
>> initial
>> Enterprise 4 release.  I had to download the Update 2 ISO set before
>> I could
>> install.  In my case though, the boot kernel wouldn't even SEE the
>> drives
>> for partitioning, so you've likely gotten past that.  But I wonder if
>> SATA
>> chipsets are still an issue you're having.  How current is your install
>> media?  Do you have a Fedora Core 4 set you could try for comparison?
>>
>> Scully
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of Larry D Sorensen
>> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:05 PM
>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: RH4 installation
>>
>> I have a new server that I am loading with RH WE4. I am using 2 SATA
>> drives and a dual AMD 4200+ processor. The installation hangs after
>> setting up the filesystems and setting the initial root password. I have
>> gone through this twice now. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I
>> be able to install with only SATA drives installed and no IDE drives
>> installed?
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>  
>>
>
>




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