Re: tlug: Redhat 5.1 question

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Thomas Joseph Haslam wrote:

> I'm having all kinds of problems installing RH 5.1 on a Gateway PII 333.
> It recongnizes the SCSI card I have installed, and it starts to format via
> (disk druid)the hard drive @ SCSI 0.  But then it crashes, usualy flashing
> <error 11> "abnormal exit of install"  [or as best as I can read the screen
> when this happens].  I've already had to "rawrite" a new boot disk from the
> Redhat CD , given that the factory one fried on a previous failure.
> 
> Any helpful (or even positive) suggestions?

I never had much luck with the disk druid myself (scsi install). Why don't
you just use the tried-and-true fdisk? 

One other thing is: do you happen to have a removable disk drive hooked
up to your machine? If it's empty during install, this wreaks havoc on
the installer software...


David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken

http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp

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