[linux-help] Re: Why RedHat 5.1 never installed, or Kickstart my scuzzy heart

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a reason you're using RedHat 5.1, and not something that was
released in the last 3 years?


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:33:45PM -0700, D. Shane Robinson wrote:
> 
>  Playing around with installing RedHat (again || still, not sure).
> Popped into another terminal during the attempted install and
> discover that the install is defaulting to a Kickstart install with
> SCSI devices. As there are no SCSI controllers on my system, install
> blows up and refuses to even attempt to look for IDE drives. And all
> that while I thought it was something wrong with the version of fdisk
> installed on the distro CD!
>  The boot disk that I am using is a SYSLINUX boot disk created from
> files on my distribution. I will be boning up on Kickstart, but if
> there are any gurus who would like to point me in the appropriate
> direction, much thanks would be in their future. (Can't seem to find
> the ks.cfg file.)
> 
> Shane,
> Linux newbie
> 
> P.S. I was sitting at a DOS prompt the other night, watching files
> getting copied from one drive to another, and caught myself reaching
> towards Alt-F2 to go to another terminal...
> 
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