RH 7.3 install hell

[tickticker]

I didn't try to keyboard command to a console thinking that by choosing t=
he=20
gui install, the console wouldn't come up until the install was done.  I =
kept=20
getting pissed because it said that the install was being logged but thou=
ght=20
I couldn't look at it until the install was done.

"Now I know, and knowing is half the battle" - G.I. Joe

See what MS Windows did to me?  Don't let this happen to you.

anthony

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:12 pm, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:21, tickticker wrote:
> > I got it up, here's the scoop:
> >
> > when installing the first time, at the point where you commit and cli=
ck
> > next to actually start the partition formatting and loadin the chosen
> > rpms, it came back with the error of not being able to copy the insta=
ll
> > image, perhaps there wasn't enuff room (there was), so I clicked 'nex=
t'
> > again and it worked. went to create my bood floppy, and it wouldn't
> > create and the floppy list stayed on.  opened the hood and whoever ma=
de
> > the server put on the floppy cable backwards.
> >
> > so i had to do it again... no big deal.  well, it wouldn't copy the i=
mage
> > again, even on the second or third try, so I did the complete install
> > again, and again, and again, and again, change partition sizes as I w=
ent.
> >  No luck. So I just sat there clicking the final 'next' after the ima=
ge
> > copy failure, and on the 7TH(!) time it just worked and it's up!
> >
> > Crazy stuff.  But the server is up and running, boot floppy made and =
all.
> >  It reminds me of back when you had to start the install with the 3 b=
oot
> > floppies and only about 1 out of every 2 would work the first time, b=
ut
> > after repeatedly inserting the same floppy you would succeed.
> >
> > anyway, that's this particular headache by the wayside.
>
> ----
> The installer reports the errors but on a virtual console (usually
> ctrl-alt-F2 I think)
>
> you can flip among the virtual terminals to get a command shell and to
> see standard output when installing - that seems to always tell me what
> is going wrong.
>
> Craig
>
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