Bug 8256 – exec /sbin/install failure halts installation early

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Bug 8256 - exec /sbin/install failure halts installation early

Summary:	exec /sbin/install failure halts installation early

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jay Turner
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Reported:	2000-01-06 23:33 EST by hmike
Modified:	2015-01-07 18:40 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-02-24 16:26:01 EST
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Description hmike 2000-01-06 23:33:16 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.

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2000-02-24 16:25:59 EST

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.

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