Installation Problem

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

Josef,

I had many problems installing RedHat from CD.  You could try (1) wash the
disks (2) use a slow, like 8X CD drive (3) copy your disks to fresh CDs - burn
them.  The RH disks are supposedly "pressed"

Good Luck

jn


---------- Original Message -----------
From: Josef Tupag <joseftupag at gmail.com>
To: axp-list at redhat.com
Sent: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:55:00 +0300
Subject: Installation Problem

> I am trying to install a RedHat 7.2 on an AlphaPC
> 164LX running SRM 5.8-1
> 
> Boot from Floppy:
> b dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0
> load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"
> ...
> running anaconda - please wait ...
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> traceback (innermost last):
> file "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 31, in?
> if (os.path.exist('isys')):
> attributeerror: path
> install exited abnormally
> 
> Boot from SCSI cd-rom:
> b dka500
> ...
> failed to send read to dka500
> 
> Boot from IDE cd-rom:
> b dqa0
> ...
> failed to send read to dqa0
> 
> Any suggestion would be appreciated.
> 
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> 
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