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On Sat Feb 26 2000 at 10:20, "Jorge Middleton" wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I have a problem with linux instalation.
> The problem is that I want to install red hat 6.0 trough window network using a
> network client startup disk.
> When run autoboot.bat, after loadlin the System Halted message appear.
> The box is pentium 66 with 16Mb of RAM
>
> �What can I do?
No, you can't do it like that.
I assume that you are attempting to do this via network drivers loaded
in dos mode, since autoboot cannot be run from within windows.
When you run that autoboot.bat from a share, access to the windows
network server is via the local system's networking drivers and
protocols - in this case, running under dos with lanman/netbios. What
the autoboot does is load a linux kernel - and when that happens all
dos functionality is abliterated as linux takes over. Your networking
evaporates into nothing as it loads - the system crashes in a heap.
Redhat cannot be installed over a samba/netbios share - samba installs
aren't supported and probably never will be. Think about it - windows
has no concept of any of the unix filesystem extensions - ownerships,
permissions, symlinks and so on -- and the installer is trying to run
from an installation image located on a samba share. It won't work
and it's silly anyway - the only reason it could work (if it did) is
that by default all files on a samba share are seen by linux samba
clients as executable, and symlinks are regarded as empty "do-nothing"
files.
The way to do it is to run autoboot.bat locally either from the cdrom
or from the hard drive (after copying it there), and then installing
it from a local CDROM. IIRC, this is the only install method autoboot
has been designed to work with anyway.
Alternatively, set up a linux box with an nfs share (almost trivial to
do), and install it over the network using nfs and the bootnet.img
disk image to boot from.
(ftp install is also there in bootnet.img, which might work with an nt
box running an ftpd server. But in my experience, redhat ftp installs
have tended to be, well, "unreliable", and I suspect using an nt ftpd
would make it even more of a waste of time).
Cheers
Tony
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