[ltp] HTTP installation...

[Book Man]

Though I am really comfortable with RedHat, I'd like
to suggest possible going with a less bloated Linux
distro for these systems unless you have a cdrom
handy.  I've had a similar problem with the 6.0 and
6.1 ver of redhat that I could only solve via a cdrom
install.  never figured out why though.

Something like Debian - the latest rev, may be a
better choice for a Linux distro on these lightweight
systems.  I used to work at this place that had tons
of old hardware and anything that couldn't handle
RedHat took Debian just fine.  I've done the install
and it wasn't bad at all.  Something like 8 disks and
I was off and running.

r/
Bookman

--- Vasanth Rakasi <v_rakasi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Having failed with trying to install through NFS, I
> am
> trying installing RedHat 6.1 using HTTP.
> 
> Please take a look at the 3 pieces of information
> below:
> 
> 1) The window on the laptop (on which I am trying to
> install RH6.1) says:
> 
> Loading second stage ramdisk...
> 
> The above message has been there throughout the
> night.
> 
> 2) 'ls -l' on RedHat/base/stage2.img shows:
> -rw-r--r--      1 root  root    2885842 Sep 27 09:04
> stage2.img
> 
> 3) The file /etc/httpd/logs/access_log shows:
> 
> 10.19.13.94 - - [25/Dec/1999:23:45:21 -0800] "GET
> //cdrom/RedHat/base/stage2.img HTTP/1.0" 200 529697
> (The above log says that a request from a client was
> successful and 529697 bytes of data was transferred
> to
> the client.)
> 
> Howcome only 529697 bytes got sent when the file
> itself is over 2MB?
> 
> I have increased the Timeout in httpd.conf from 300
> to
> 1000 (seconds) but this hasn't helped.
> 
> The two options that I am passing to kernel are:
> hd=523,32,63
> mem=8M
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> vasanth
> 
> --- Vasanth Rakasi <v_rakasi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to install RedHat Linux 6.1 on old,
> > Pentium-based IBM thinkpads--models 365E and
> 755CX.
> > Niether of these has a a CD-ROM drive. Both of
> them,
> > however, have floppy disk drives. The hard disk
> > space
> > on both the ThinkPads is 540MB and and is wiped
> > clean
> > with Partition Magic. Each of them has 8MB RAM.
> > 
> > I am trying the installation through nfs, running
> on
> > another desktop PC (which has a CD-ROM drive and)
> > running RedHat Linux 6.1. I am able to connect the
> > ThinkPads to the network using an NE2000
> compatible
> > PCMCIA card. 
> > 
> > I'm  using RedHat 6.1's pcmcia.img and
> > gdth-driver-disk.img which I got from RedHat's
> site
> > and used rawrite.exe to copy on to floppy
> diskettes.
> > With the help of these two ".img" files, I'm able
> to
> > get to the point where I need to select an
> > installation method--NFS.
> > 
> > (at this point, when I ping this machine from
> > another
> > machine, I do get a response--showing that the
> > network
> > card is working OK. I can hear the spinning of
> > CD-ROM
> > on the desktop PC in response to the installation
> on
> > the thinkpads.)
> > 
> > Installation, however, fails with the following
> > error
> > (let's call it error_1):
> > -------------------
> > install exited abnormally -- received signal 7
> > sending termination signals...done
> > sending kill signals...done
> > unmounting filesystems...
> >                 /mnt/source
> >                 /dev/pts
> >                 /proc
> > you may safely reboot your system
> > -------------------
> > 
> > When I try to get to "bash#" during the
> installation
> > procedure (by temporarily not answering the
> > questions
> > asked by the installaion program), I tried "fdisk
> > /dev/hda", "fdisk /dev/sda" and "fdisk /dev/eda"
> > only
> > to see "Unable to open /dev/hda",
> > "Unable to open /dev/sda", etc. 
> > 
> > I When I do "ls /dev", the following is what I
> see:
> > -------------------
> > console mem             ptmx    tty0    tty3   
> tty6
> >  
> >  ttyS1   zero
> > log     null    pts     tty1    tty4    tty7   
> > ttyS2
> > md0     psaux   ram     tty2    tty5    ttyS0  
> > ttyS3
> > -------------------
> > I don't see hda, sda or eda. 
> > 
> > Somebody on the linux thinkpad newsgroup suggested
> I
> > use "mknod" to get "/dev/hda", "fdisk"
> > to create linux and swap partitions /dev/hda1 and
> > /dev/hda2 respectively. Even after I do this, I
> > still
> > get the same error (error_1 above).
> > 
> > Any help from you would be deeply appreciated.
> > 
> > vasanth
>
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