Bug 583
| Summary: | FTP installer doesn't handle FTP server timeout | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | kas |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-03-13 21:48:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
1998-12-25 17:30:24 UTC
This has been verified as a problem. We are working on fixing this for future releases of Red Hat. *** Bug 583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I've installed RedHat by ftp quite a bit, and the ftp install process could be a bit more robust. If you have the right ftp site and directory, everything works great. If you don't, you could be there for a while while you try to guess what your supposed to have. A few suggestions: 1) Please make ftp failures more verbose, all too often I get kicked back to the host/directory dialog with no indication of why. Even the vt's don't reveal anything. 2) How about having a list of primary mirrors, so you could select "install from" and have a list of about 10-20 big servers and then have a "specify..." option so you can put in a different server or use a uname/pswd. 3) What would really be cool is an interactive dialog, so you could log into host and traverse the directory tree till you found what you needed. I understand space is at a premium on two floppies though. 4) At the very list, include a text file with known mirrors and their directory tree. The biggest problem here is that this would get out of date quickly. traff *** Bug 583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The redhat install program has a problem which makes it very difficult to do FTP installs. The install sequence is partition disks download some files from the FTP site CHOOSE PACKAGES FORMAT PARTITIONS download RPMS The two steps shown in all-caps together take so much time that FTP servers will disconnect the computer due to lack of activity! One cannot simply bypass the format step because the install program builds a broken RPM database on the partition, which causes install to crash on a second install attempt when it tries to write the RPMs to disk in the last step. A workaround is to format two partitions in a first run of install, with the smaller one assigned to the / mound point. This partition gets a corrupted RPM database when install crashes. The second formatted partition can be used at the / mount point in a second install attempt. It has no broken RPM database. Since the user doesn't have to format the partition, the FTP server doesn't disconnect the computer due to inactivity. This flaw should be very easy to fix. ------- Additional Comments From jturner 01/12/99 12:01 ------- This has been verified and will hopefully be fixed in the next release of Red Hat. Should be fixed in next release. |