Bug 78656
Summary: | installer crashes when installing evolution package (says .rpm file cannot be opened) | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hari S. Kumar <hari4baseball> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i586 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-11-28 04:14:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Hari S. Kumar
2002-11-27 05:06:02 UTC
This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 75377. Please refer to the instructions in that bug report to see if the updated image provided will correct your problem. Hi, I looked at the bug you pointed me at (75377) and I'm not sure it addresses the problem I have. Also, I am very much a newbie to Linux. I don't know exactly how to go about implementing the various solutions described by the bug report above. I have two computers at home: one is the system I'm trying to install Linux on, the other is a Win2K system. Apart from that I do not have other Linux resources, and I'm not sure what it means to use the floppy instead of the provided CDs etc. Could you please help me by providing more details or steps? Thank you, Hari :-) From Bug 75377 - "If you hit a case where a package can't be read and you get prompted to try again, you can end up in a case where the CD isn't mounted, so trying to read the .discinfo file fails." I have not experienced the problem that seems to occur regular enough that people are having difficulties installing Red Hat Linux 8.0. So, I'll try to summarize the solution that's included in the aforementioned bug: The boot portion of the Red Hat Linux 8.0 installation disc and Anaconda, the Red Hat Linux installer, were designed with the philosophy that even the "gold" edition could have bugs that hinder Red Hat Linux being installed on certain systems. The .discinfo problem seems to be sort of a timing issue - specifically related to certain CD-ROM drives (I might be over-simplifying the problem). Nonetheless, people filed the bug in Bugzilla - the Red Hat engineers went to work to create an update image. When you first put in the Red Hat Linux 8.0 disc 1, it shows you a text screen showing some options. Typing "linux updates" at the prompt let's the installation know that you have a disk that contains some patches or workarounds to get rid of a problem. You will then be asked to provide the disk that you wrote the image on. See the following steps: 1. Since you have a Windows machine - you should first obtain the rawwritewin application. You can find the rawwritewin application at the following address: ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/dosutils/rawritewin/ Download all the files in the directory to your local computer. "rawwritewin" will take an image (like the image file mentioned in the bug report) and byte-for-byte write it to your floppy disk. 2. You should then download the actual image to be written to the floppy disk. http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/8.0-cdread.img - place the 8.0-cdread.img file in a convenient location. 3. Put a 1.44M floppy disk in your drive - make sure you don't mind losing everything on the disk! 4. Double-click "rawwritewin.exe" (where ever you put the file) - it will pop-up a dialog box that says "Write", "Read", etc. in the tabs. The Floppy Drive selection box should already be set to your default A: drive. Click the "..." button to the right of the Image file: text box. Now, find the image that you downloaded - Click OK. Now click the "Write" button in the lower right of your tab area. This will byte-for-byte write the update disk to your floppy. 5. Now you are ready to install Red Hat Linux 8.0 again! 6. Boot off disc 1. 7. Text will appear (the SYSLINUX menu) - at the prompt type: linux updates 8. Follow the instructions and you should be good-to-go. I hope this helps you out. |