Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 112440
LTC5671-RHEL 3.0 Update1 (Beta) installation requires too frequent CD change
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:59 EST
The following has be reported by IBM LTC: RHEL 3.0 Update1 (Beta) installation requires too frequent CD change Hardware Environment: plinuxt01.tw.ibm.com P615+ 7029-6E3 On board SCSI (Gemstone chip) Network-Mainboard: 1port x 1 (10/100M) 1port x 1 (Gigabit) Network-External: 1port x 1 (5700 Gigabit Ethernet-SX), on slot 1 2port x 1 (5706 2-port Base-TX Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X Adapt) on slot 4 CPU: 1-way 1.2 GHz Power4+ Processor MEM: 8G Software Environment: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 GM with Update 1 CD1 (Dec. 11 Beta) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with RHEL 3.0 Update 1 Beta CD1 2. Start the installation process from CD Actual Results: Each rpm/package need swapping disc1 and disc2 almost every time. Full installation will need swapping disc1 and disc2 more than 100 times. Expected Results: Fewer CD change during the installation of update 1. Additional Information: With RHEL 3.0 update 1 beta, only CD1 is new. All other CDs are the same as GM. Maybe this is what causes the frequent CD change problem.Glen/Greg - this is installation issue, so please submit this to Red Hat. Thanks.
The dev space available check is failing and thinking there's not enough space for the updates to be cached (all of the updated packages which are going to get installed generally get transferred to the hard drive to avoid this, but I try to make sure you have a reasonable enough amount of space first). Just committed a fix to CVS
------ Additional Comments From albertcc@tw.ibm.com 2004-01-12 02:58 ------- Verified on p615 with Update 1 respin (re0108). This problem is fixed.