[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I need some help installing RedHat 5.2 from my HD. I posted details earlier
> and no one has responded. Can someone please help me?
>>I downloaded RedHat 5.2 the other night and now I'm trying to install it. I
>>downloaded it from windows onto my fat32 partition. now i'm trying to install
>>it. i made the boot disk and supplementary disk and restarted. then i run
>>through the beginning part of the installation and it loads the supplementary
>>disk, then i choose to do a custom install. then it asks for where the
>>RedHat/base and RedHat/RPMS folders are. i tell it /dev/hda1 for the
>>partition and /i386 for the folder on the partition. then it comes up with
>>an error... it says error opening directory. any ideas?
The RedHat 5.2 Installation FAQ says that to install of the hard drive you need
a
DOS parition formatted Fat16.
The below is taken from
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RHL-5.2-Manual/install-guide/manual/doc118.html
E.6.3.1 Question
I do not have a cdrom that will work with Linux and I can not install from the
network. Is there another method?
E.6.3.2 Answer
If you cannot use a CD-ROM or a network to install Red Hat Linux, you can
install Red Hat Linux from a hard drive; just follow these steps.
You'll need a DOS partition that is formatted in FAT16; create a directory
called \RedHat in it. From there you will need to copy the items
from the cdrom (E: in our example) over to the hard-drive (C: in our example).
Here's what you would do:
mkdir C:\RedHat
mkdir C:\RedHat\base
mkdir C:\RedHat\RPMS
copy E:\RedHat\base C:\RedHat\base
copy E:\RedHat\RPMS C:\RedHat\RPMS
If you do not have enough disk space for copying the entire RPMS directory tree
over to your hard-drive, you will need to look in the file
\RedHat\base\comps file for the RPMS that are needed in the base and in any
other sections you feel you need.
Once you have done this, you can start the install and choose a Hard-Drive
install. You will be asked to insert the supplemental floppy. Once
the supplemental disk has been loaded, you will be presented with the next
screen on the install. When asked to select the partition
containing the Red Hat Linux files, do so, and the install will proceed from
there.
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