On 04 May 2001 19:37:16 -0700, Chopin Cusachs wrote: <em>> I was attempting to install to the master drive of the two on the same <em>> port. The slave, which I installed myself, hasn't been fdisked or formatted, <em>> so it is invisible to the software, but visible to the BIOS, which could not <em>> care less whether it is formatted. <em>> Whether or not the drive is formatted has nothing to do with its visibility to software. In fact, linux could care less whether the BIOS could SEE the drive. It does its own scanning of the ide bus. <p><em>> Worth a check, but I did pore over the diagrams carefully to get the <em>> jumpers, I hope, right. <em>> <em>> The previous version was installed this same way, boot diskette, then <em>> install from CD-Rom. It boots just fine to the older version on disk <em>> with no boot diskette. Wonder if there is any way to trigger install <em>> of the new version from a running old one? <em>> Just to make sure, have you tried using a different floppy disk? The quality of floppies that you get nowadays is pretty much nil. I'd at least try another clean, pure, hopefully even known-good disk before I go blaming anything software-related. You should also be able to get your CDROM bootable. Any motherboard that can handle a K6-2 should be able to boot from the CD. Now, I _have_ had RedHat die on anaconda because of a corrupted partition table on the drive. A manual wiping of the partitions fixed that, though; and it was a beta copy of 7.0 or 7.1 (don't remember which). -Tim <p><em>> Choppy <em>> <em>> At 03:55 PM 5/4/01 -0500, you wrote: <em>> >Has it occurred to anyone else that this sort of general I/O failure may <em>> >be indicative of a mis-jumpered Master/Slave pair of drives? It just <em>> >strikes me that we're adding a second drive to the system AND trying to <em>> >install to it. The second drive might not be jumpered to Master/Slave <em>> >with the first one. ...worth a look, anyway. <em>> > <em>> >-- <em>> >-j <em>> > <em>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> > <em>> >On Wed, 2 May 2001, Chopin Cusachs wrote: <em>> > <em>> > > Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 19:19:57 -0700 <em>> > > From: Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <em>> > > Subject: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install <em>> > > <em>> > > <em>> > > The Red Hat 7.1 CDs arrived from Cheapbytes and today I <em>> > > attempted to install. <em>> > > <em>> > > The Linux box has Rad Hat 6.1 working, and I have added <em>> > > but not formatted a second hard drive. <em>> > > <em>> > > Created the boot.img diskette on this machine. Put the <em>> > > 1st RH CD in the cd drive of the Linux box, the floppy in <em>> > > the first floppy drive and powered on. Up came the prompt <em>> > > to select how to boot. Typed in 'text' and enter. Did some <em>> > > loading, through vmlinuz, then upacked something -- lots <em>> > > of typical boot lines flashed by, asked for language and <em>> > > keyboard then message about anaconda, dying several <em>> > > times with error messages like exec input output error. <em>> > > <em>> > > Apparently got slightly different anaconda error with the <em>> > > graphical install vs text. <em>> > > <em>> > > Questions: <em>> > > (1) Anyone got a clue what is likely to be wrong? <em>> > > <em>> > > (2) In the meantime, how do I set up the second HD. <em>> > > Suspect I need to use Druid, but I didn't succeed in <em>> > > locating it. <em>> > > <em>> > > Choppy <em>> > > <em>> > > ================================================ <em>> > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> > > your subscription information. <em>> > > ================================================ <em>> > > <em>> > <em>> >================================================ <em>> >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> >your subscription information. <em>> >================================================ <em>> <em>> ================================================ <em>> BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> your subscription information. <em>> ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. 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