Re: [RULE] Kernel loading problems (CD-install)

[C David Rigby]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 05:10, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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> On Saturday 30 August 2003 02:53 pm, address@hidden wrote:
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> > I have a copy of RedHat 8.0, does this mean I can use that disk for the
> > kernel, won't the path be different? I would do omething about this
> > manually in the shell but as I've said the shell fails to start for me,
> > which is reeeeeeeeeelllllllllly fustrating as it kinda limits my
> > options for fixing the problem. I'll try using the red hat disk for the
> > kernel, but I'm not holding my breath, 'cos as I said the eject fails,
> > and the remount doesn't look as if it's quiering the CDROM.
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> I'll have to look into the unmount/mount problem with the CD. Neither the 
> Red Hat 8.0 or 9 CDs will help you, however. Neither contains an i386 
> kernel package.
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I just double-checked.  The third CD of my RedHat 8 set includes the
kernel package kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm.  This will boot my 486
notebook, though it has somethings I don't need (e.g. USB) and lacks
others that I do need (NFS support).

CDR

> Have you verified the md5sum on the slinky CD? If you insert the CD in a 
> drive on another machine, can you view the contents? 
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