Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8256
exec /sbin/install failure halts installation early
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:40:26 EST
After mirroring the i386 directory with the mirror package, Updating the permissions to everything directory and executable to 755 as it says to in the Redhat-Cd mini howto, mkisofs according to the howto (without joliet extensions) mounted it as a loopback to confirm file system burned image to cd from a mac with writer made floppy from CD booted from floppy it gets to finishing mounting filesystems (proc and etc) and then reports: exec failure /sbin/install then stops the install and reports safe to reboot. Any idea whats going on here? I'm going to try another system but I have a feeling maybe I did something bad during making the CD by changing permissions all willy nilly.
This is definitely a problem with the CDROM. The easiest thing to do when making a Red Hat CDROM is to download the ISO image and then work from there. That assures that the permissions are correct and that nothing else is missing or wrong.