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Bug 8256

Summary:	exec /sbin/install failure halts installation early
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	hmike
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	srevivo
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description hmike 2000-01-07 04:33:16 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2000-02-24 21:25:59 UTC

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.