Richard (and everyone else),
I have tried both of your suggestions but each has failed in the same way. I
have since been advised that librpm was buggy in RH6.0 and my nfsroot install
was triggering the bug tus causing the signal 11. The suggestion made was to
move on to Redhat 6.1.
So I have - and to not particularly to my surprise I am now having troubles
with the Redhat 6.1 installer. This time however I cannot even make it into
the installer as during installer startup when 300k of RAM is allocated as
ramdisk space the step fails and the installer so politely states that "I
cannot recover from this". This is also extremely weird as a similar step
seems to execute flawlessly in the redhat 6.0 install.
If somebody could please offer any suggestions as to why this problem is
occuring I would be extremely greatful. I would also like to know how buggy
installers like this get past integration or even unit testing at Redhat as I
don't think that a nfsroot install is that exotic, in fact should't it be
completely transperant to the installer anyhow.
In addition if anybody has managed to complete an nfsroot install (i.e.
having the ramdisk.img mounted on another machine and use nfs to allow the
machine to be installed on to use the nfs mounted image as its root
directory) with RedHat 6.1 (or even RedHat 6.0) could you please offer any
advice you deem important- that would be terrific also.
Thanks in advance,
Dean.
> Have you tried not doing the Custom setup? Choosing workstation or Server?
> Also if you can't setup BSD disklabes from disk druid, you'll need to use
> fdisk. If you are going to continue using bootp to load the kernel that's
> fine, but if you wish to boot a kernel from the HD you'll need the BSD
> disklabels.
>
> --rdp
>
>
> > I am sure I am using the new installer as it was built on May 28th 1999,
> > whilst the original image contained an installer built on April 19th
> > 1999.
> >
> > If somebody could shed some light upon this somewhat strange problem it
> > would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dean.
> >
>
> Rich Payne
> rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
>
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