RH 7.3 install hell

[tickticker]

can I learn to spell simpl works plees?

=2E.. my bood floppy,=20

=2E..and the floppy list stayed on.

=2E.... formatting and loadin the chosen....

anthony

ps.  my bood isn't floppy

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:21 pm, tickticker wrote:
> I got it up, here's the scoop:
>
> when installing the first time, at the point where you commit and click
> next to actually start the partition formatting and loadin the chosen r=
pms,
> it came back with the error of not being able to copy the install image=
,
> perhaps there wasn't enuff room (there was), so I clicked 'next' again =
and
> it worked. went to create my bood floppy, and it wouldn't create and th=
e
> floppy list stayed on.  opened the hood and whoever made the server put=
 on
> the floppy cable backwards.
>
> so i had to do it again... no big deal.  well, it wouldn't copy the ima=
ge
> 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 wen=
t.=20
> No luck. So I just sat there clicking the final 'next' after the image =
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 al=
l.=20
> It reminds me of back when you had to start the install with the 3 boot
> floppies and only about 1 out of every 2 would work the first time, but
> after repeatedly inserting the same floppy you would succeed.
>
> anyway, that's this particular headache by the wayside.
>
> anthony
>
> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:17 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> > Don't install 7.3. It is what tured me off to redhat.
>
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