[ltp] Installation woes

Rob Moser linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:32:38 +1100 (EST)


Alas I've already tried this, but I get device busy messages from my
network card.  Thanks for the advice though.

	   - rob.

rclough@att.net quoth:
> I tried the same thing... you do want the /redhat 
> directory off of the root of the cd, but I still 
> couldn't get it to work locally.  My workaround was to 
> run an ftp server on a networked Win98 machine, and 
> select the ftp install.  For some reason that did it.  I 
> suspect part of my problem was that DOS was only seeing 
> 8.3 filenames.  
> Use ArGoSofts FTP server, a great freeware product you 
> can d/l from www.tucows.com.

> > Didn't want to download all 600-odd megs again and burn another CD just
> > yet, and there is a network install tree (FTP) local to me, so I went and
> > got bootnet.img and rawrote it to disk.  Boots, run installer in (*) mode
> > and it asks for lang, keyboard, then tell it FTP and it asks for a network
> > device driver.  The pull-down list has mine (Etherlink III) so I select and
> > get: "/tmp/3c509.o: init_module: Device or resource busy"
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