Re: [Rule-list] Network install not working

[Glen Lee Edwards]

Gordon,

The sbpcd module is loading fine.  I can install off a regular CD with no
trouble.  I couldn't install 6.2 (CD-R) locally, so I had to do a network
install.  I'm downloading 7.2 again, and am going to burn the CDs using a Black
CD-R to see if I get better results.  Last time I was half way through a 600+
megabyte install when it crashed.  Minicom and Updates worked without a hitch.
The problem appears to be with the CD-R.

I'd still like to be able to get the network install problem fixed if possible.
I have a P1 75 MHZ box I may need to use it on.

Glen



Gordon Buzowetsky writes:
>Hi Glen....not necessarily your cdrom....could even be bad ram.....I've 
>done a few slinky installs with just about exactly the same 
>setup.....Read thru March's archives; near the end; we finally got the 
>thing to work real good.   Check the threads with 'sbpcd', and 'insmod 
>anyone' that was mostly me and Micheal.....a lot of playing around but 
>Micheal (Devon) got the issue straightened out....problem was module 
>loading for the cdrom....
>
>Luck...G
>
>Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
>
>>I have an old 486-66 with 16 meg ram I use that I need to update to 7.2 if
>>possible.  It keeps getting hacked from someone in Romania with the following
>>email addresses:
>>
>>address@hidden
>>address@hidden
>>
>>Apparently I can't do a local install.  I downloaded the images off the 'net.
>>My old Soundblaster Pro CDRom keeps failing part way through the install.  I'm
>>assuming that it's having a hard time reading the CDs I burnt.
>>
>>I was able to do a successful network install of 6.2.  But when I try it with
>>7.2 with the CD in a CD-Writer, it gets to the place where it tries to run
>>Anaconda, and goes no further:
>>
>>Running anaconda - please wait...
>>
>>I let it go overnight, thinking maybe it just takes time to run, but 7 hours
>>later it had the same message.  I'm using minicom with udates_v0.7.3.img.
>>
>>I need this box to install 7.2, so any help you can provide will be 
>>appreciated!
>>
>>Glen
>>
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