Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427
Problem with FTP installation method.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:48 EDT
I'm the ftpmanager of Computer Science Department of University of Tarragona. We are mirroring 5.2 version of Redhat Linux and experiencing problems when we try to install it with FTP method, i don't know if other methods are also affected. I get the following error: "Comps file is not version 0 as expected." Before getting this error we observe that only three files are downloaded. These files are: Here is a dump of the FTP server log files: --- Tue Dec 15 09:21:44 1998 6 atc5.etse.urv.es 4050635 /incoming/secure/i386/RedHat/base/hdlist b _ o a rhinstall@ ftp 0 * Tue Dec 15 09:21:44 1998 1 atc5.etse.urv.es 15342 /incoming/secure/i386/RedHat/base/comps b _ o a rhinstall@ ftp 0 * Tue Dec 15 09:21:44 1998 1 atc5.etse.urv.es 22958 /incoming/secure/i386/RedHat/base/install3.tr b _ o a rhinstall@ ftp 0 * --- We have checked our mirror consistency comparing it with your source. They are equal. We have also tried to install directly from your own FTP (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386) and we get the same error. With previous version 5.1 we didn't experience any problem. I think that the problem seems to be in ".../base/comps" file. Is the problem mine?, or yours? Any comment will be welcomed.
Sounds like the boot disk that you are using to kick-off the installation is for a version other than 5.2. Try recreating the boot disk using the images in the 5.2 tree.