I thought I installed 7.1 on my laptop fine...but the bootup hangs at
pcmcia module. I don't know if it is related. I installed once over
http, and once over ftp.
-davidu
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I should have clarified: I tried to download 7.1, as I have done in the
> past, by using a network boot image ON FLOPPY, and NOT by downloading an
> ISO image. I repeat: I've been using a boot image of 7.1 on floppy.
>
> It brings up the entire install process. The problem is that the
> download stops at the "kpppload" file, no matter what option you select,
> Custom or Expert, Normal (minimal - 300 megs) or just KDE. It stops at
> mid-point (with hundreds of packages remaining on the server and with
> the clock at mid-point) because that is where the first CD ends and
> where you are supposed to insert the second CD. But no dialogue box or
> warning or instructions are given at this point. The install process
> thinks that the download is over and just skips to the next installation
> stage and those that follow. You get a phony "Installation successful"
> message when, in fact, you really have a thoroughly crippled
> installation. By the way, if you were not monitoring the download but
> went out to have a beer, you would never even know about this because
> 7.1 just skips ahead past kpppload to the next stage. So, you may think
> your installation was a success when probably it is not.
>
> By the way, now I hear that there are not TWO but THREE CD's involved.
> Is that true?
>
> The exact same phenomenon occurred to me (at the exact same point) at
> both rpmfind.net and metalab.unc.edu
>
> Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Has anyone succeeded in
> actually downloading 7.1 successfully by FTP using a floppy boot image?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
