From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: I have read the instructions for upgrading RH from the hard drive over and over and over. My simple impression is this: Copy from mirror FTP sites all files from the RPMS and base directories onto the hard drive under the directory path called RedHat/RPMS and RedHat/base, respectively. Create installer bootdisk by copying boot.img from the images directory onto a floppy disk. Then just simply run the installer to do a hard-drive upgrade. Am I interpreting these instructions correctly? I have downloaded EVERY single file from these sites (some 840MB over some 870 files). There is one file that I consistently am having a problem downloading. It is by far the largest file of them all. According to every mirror site I have tried it is around 87MB. The file is found in the base directories and is called "stage2.img". Every downloading method I have tried has unsuccessfully downloaded 87MB of this file. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. I have been using Windows98 in my attempts to download this file. 2. I have tried right clicking on file name and "save link as" as one method of downloading 3. I have tried using the NetZip download demon program as another method. Actual Results: During the download the progress reporting is skewed. The downloading methods either don't show the correct percentage of the file size already downloaded OR the time remaining is wrong OR both. For instance, I am trying to download this file as I write this message. The download started 30 minutes ago. 27 of the 87MB has completed. The download program is reporting there is over 12 hours left to completion. That is totally wrong. Another attempt with another downloading method was stuck on reporting the download at 24% complete for over 20 MB of the process. Suddenly it jumped up to 52%!!!! Another time, for instance, the download just stopped and eventually timed out. Another time, for instance, the download hit 100% and 87MB!!! Halleluyah!!! The only problem is the process didn't quit. It kept on downloading!! The time remaing was being reported at over 104 HOURS!!! I cancelled the process after it had reportedly downloaded over 90MB. The file was saved and its size was only 26MB !!!!!! The last two attempts I have made to download this file just stopped after downloading ~56MB and the process timed out. What is going on with this file!!! What in the hell am I doing wrong???? The closest thing that I have found in bugzilla to my problem is a response to bug # 21413 made in November of last year.. "It looks like the /RedHat/base directory wasn't properly copied onto your hard drive image." This bug # is still posted as NEW??? What do you mean by "[not] properly copied"?? Also what do you mean by "hard drive image"?? Expected Results: Successful download. The file should be saved into a directory where it reports a filesize of ~87MB. Until I get this file successfully downloaded and into the /RedHat/base directory any attempts at running the install program seems futile OR IS IT? Additional info: My system has a Celeron 300 cpu with 48MB ram and 6GB HD. I am separating the HD into the following partitioning scheme: device size(MB) mount point hdb2 22 /boot hdb3 118 swap hdb5 103 / hdb6 1550 /home hdb7 376 /opt hdb8 191 /tmp hdb9 981 /usr hdb10 693 /usr/local hdb11 789 /usr/src hdb12 413 /var
I'm not familiar with Windows FTP clients (at least not in a few years), so I don't know what is going on with your FTP client. The stage2.img file is 89438208 bytes in size, so if the file isn't that exact size, then the installer is not going to work. There's nothing special about that file that would cause FTP clients to mess up...it's just like every other binary file except that it's rather large in size. Are you sure that the FTP client is set to binary transfer mode? I would recommend that you download 7.1 and try a hard drive install with it. We have changed the hard drive install method for 7.1 since people seemed to have trouble with the old way. What you do now is download the cd ISO images to a partition on your hard drive, just like you would if you were going to burn a cd. Instead of burning the cd, though, you boot the computer with the boot.img floppy and select "Hard Drive". The installer will find the ISOs on the hard drive and do the install that way. I'm sorry that you are having trouble downloading Red Hat Linux, but I'm going to close this bug since it seems be problem lies somewhere between the FTP site, Windows, and the FTP client. Feel free to post back to this bug report, however, and I'll try to help you in any way that I can.