From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have a machine i used to run redhat 6.1 on. I decided to install 9.0. (I did not try upgrade). I go through all the configuration screens with out a problem. the actuall install starts. it formats and partitions my harddisk. (I had it remove all partitions). It looks like it copies some stuff to my hard disk, then it ends with an error about the system not being supported. Strange all the probes durring the config stage seemed to work okay. Bascially my machine is wacked. Any idea how I can figure out what the problems is? There does not seem to be an install log? I do not know much about the hardware on this system. I looked at /etc/sysconfif/hwconf before I started the install. here is what I found pentium s 166 mhz memory 64m network card 3com 3c905c audio ESS technology es1969 solo1 audiodrive mouse generic ps/2 cdrom cdu55e harddisk fujitsumpe3084ae any idea how I figure out how big it is? thanks in advance Andy bang_zippy Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run the install program 2. 3. Additional info:
What does /proc/cpuinfo say about your machine? How many CDs is the distribution you're installing from?
I am installing from a 2 CD distribution. I re installed redhat 6.1 # less /proc/cpuinfo processor :0 vender_id : genuine Intel cpu family :5 model :2 model name :pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 12 cpu mhz : 166.730886 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no foof_buf : yes coma_bug : no cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 boomips : 66.56 hope this helps Andy
The publisher's CD (which is the two cd version) requires an i686 processor to work. The full Red Hat Linux 9 CD is required to support i586 processors.
How could this not be a bug? If my system is not supported by a particular distrubition, your installer should tell me before attempting to modify my hard disk. Andy