From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I boot the PCMCIA install floppy and do an FTP install but it doesn't use the netstg1.img file properly (or the file is incorrect). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from install floppy (written using /pub/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/os/images/pcmcia.img 2. Switch to driver disk when prompted. 3. Specify FTP install 4. Use server ftp.redhat.com 5. Use directory /pub/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/os 6. Installation will fail with "failed to read /modules/module-info" Additional info: Screen 3 indicates the following: transferring ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/updates. img to a fd transferring ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/os/i386/disc1/RedHat/base/up dates.img to a fd transferring ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/netstg1. img to a fd copied 8073216 bytes to (null) mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /tmp/ramfs/netstg1.img fd is 16 got url ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/linux/beta/null/en/os/i386 getting ready to spawn shell now Screen 4 has the following: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0).
Dupe of another (don't remember the id off hand). Already fixed in our current internal trees
OK but in the mean time is there some way I can perform a network install?