Bug 13298
| Summary: | installer expects xxgdb on disk1 but it is on disk2 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hans de Goede <hdegoede> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-07-05 17:05:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Hans de Goede
2000-06-30 21:23:17 UTC
After doing a select individual packages unselect xxgdb, I got the same error for yp-tools. Now I all of a sudden get a feeling that this is related to me doing a network install. I assume that the network installer assumes that it is installing from an filesystem containing the complete RedHat dir, not just disc1 may I point out that this is BAD, since I can now no longer export the CD, but instead need around 1 gig of hd-space to be able todo an network install, or do some ugly stuff with links. You are correct you need to have both discs available if you are selecting a package set containing RPMS from both. This is due to the large size of what comes with a Linux distribution these days. Yes, nice, but as I already said, this is BAD, I for example use network installs for both my laptops, and for one of my 2 main test systems, also my alpha needs todo a network install sometimes due to a broken installer. This means that I need a lott of free disk space which I don't have. I also know a lott of other people used to directly nfs exporting the cd-rom, that isn't possible this way. I strongly urge RedHat to concider adding an option to allow exporting the CD again, like asking for an nfs mount-point for disc2, or to replace the disk when a disc2 rpm is not found. (What about disk1 disk2 files, which tell the installer which disk(s) are in that dir. It might seem silly to ask someone to exchange a disk during a network install, but trust me it isn't. All network installs I've done have always been form an exported cd. |