Re: RH 7.0 failed install - what next?

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have had a copy of RH 7.0 from Bruce for some time but have not been
> able to load it because of it complained of my having a dirty filesystem.
> After floudering around unsuccessfully with minimizing the # of
> filesystems in fstab, I finally noticed a suggestion during boot of 6.2
> that I use e2fsck to check my filesystems.  Well, sure enough I got an
> error message on a paratition other than my boot partition (what would I
> have done had the problem been the boot partition?) and e2fsck cleaned it
> up and I could boot 7.0!!  After a few hours installing 7.0, which went
> smoothly, I tried to boot up the new system but got MANY error messages
> including messages that several of the files the boot wanted to access
> being read-only and several attempts to perform an operation for which my
> 166MHz system was too slow to handle, it stopped at an INIT.... line.


Redhat released an update disk to solve some install problems.  See:

  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2000-084-04.html

I think it'd be worth a try to download the update disk and try it.


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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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