Bug 55751

Summary:	FTP install does not handle the change from CD1 to CD2 and the doco does not address the matter
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jim Donovan <jimd>
Component:	rhl-ig-x86	Assignee:	Sandra Moore <smoore>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Sandra Moore <smoore>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	adstrong
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Description Jim Donovan 2001-11-06 04:38:32 UTC

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Description of problem:
when installing via FTP, the installation hangs when you need to change from CD1 to CD2 on the remote machine. My fix was to copy 
BOTH CDs onto a single directory in a partition with about 1.2GB spare

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.get RH7.2 and 2 computers networked
2.make a boot floppy as directed then put installation CD 1 in one machine and try to install RH7.2 on the other
3. the installation hangs when you exhaust CD1; you are not given any facility to swap to CD2
	

Actual Results:  I had to abort the install

Expected Results:  I would have liked to be prompted for CD2 so that I could complete the install

Additional info:

this presumably only became a problem when RH7.0 issued on 2 CDs unlike RH6.2 on 1 CD

Comment 1 Sandra Moore 2001-11-06 21:40:43 UTC

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-install-network.html

The above URL points to the text mode instructions for installing over a
network. The first point made in the "Setting Up the Server" sections is

"Because the Red Hat Linux 7.2 installation program is capable of installing Red
Hat Linux from multiple CD-ROMs, if you intend to support NFS, FTP, or HTTP
installations you must copy the RedHat directory from each CD-ROM comprising Red
Hat Linux 7.2 onto a disk drive:" 

which takes into account that both CDs must be copied onto a disk drive to
perform a network installation properly. 

The installation behavior has changed and the documentation does reflect these
changes.