Bug 6476 - Where is the driver disk???
Summary: Where is the driver disk???
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jay Turner
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: 6579 7789 8118 8306 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-28 19:24 UTC by banasw01
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:39 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2000-05-09 16:56:21 UTC

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Description banasw01 1999-10-28 19:24:48 UTC 
Well, so I decided to install RH 6.1 on an old unused 386.
I had to boot from the floppy image in the /images/
directory. I made a boot disk using rawrite on a dos
machine. It booted up and went into the install, but gave
me an error "The floppy disk you inserted is not a valid
driver disk for this relese of RedHat Linux. Humm... In
the /images/ directory on the cd-rom I only see boot.img,
bootnet.img and pcmcia.img, no "driver disk image" or
anything like it. Maybe it is just somewhere on the disk or
maybe I should know something here, or be a mind reader,
but I don't see it. A readme file in the /images/ directory
would be nice.
Thanks
Wojciech Banas
Comment 1 adrian.lawrence 1999-10-30 11:01:59 UTC 
Just hit "Cancel", and no driver disc is required. Yes the prompt is
misleading and confusing, and it ought to be improved. Not speaking
for RH, of course. Just solving (?) your problem.
Comment 2 Jay Turner 2000-02-08 19:22:59 UTC 
This has been added to a list of features for future releases.
Comment 3 Jay Turner 2000-02-14 17:08:59 UTC 
*** Bug 8118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jay Turner 2000-02-22 14:54:59 UTC 
*** Bug 6579 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2000-04-14 16:26:59 UTC 
*** Bug 8306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2000-04-24 19:19:59 UTC 
*** Bug 7789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Erik Troan 2000-05-09 16:56:59 UTC 
Fixed for next release -- sorry it took so long.
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