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Re: Question: Installing Redhat 6.1 on a Toshiba (Steve Thomas)
Date: 2000, Feb 17
From: Steve Thomas <stevet@sb.net>

Updated info. I prepared a new drivers disk with the gdth-drivers-disk.img from Redhat. When the system asks for a drivers disk,I insert this one. It takes it just fine, but I still run into a dead end. I can't get past the point where it says that I have no hard disk. Ideas anyone? Steve

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Re: More: Drivers Disk Re: More: Drivers Disk (Steve Thomas) Date: 2000, Feb 19 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I think this is more of a Red Hat problem than a PCMCIA problem... I checked their bug tracker, and found a similar report, and Red Hat says that you should just hit "cancel" when asked for a driver disk. They're asking for a driver disk for the drive you're installing to, not the PCMCIA CD-ROM. And you don't need a driver disk for your hard drive. Can you try that, and post your results? I think the gdth-driver-disk is definitely not something you should be using. -- Dave

More: Drivers Disk Re: Re: More: Drivers Disk (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Feb 19 From: Steve Thomas <stevet@sb.net>

The driver disk did nothing, either way. I have been totally unable to get RH to recognize my CD. So, after admitting defeat, I decided to partition the hard drive with a fat32 partition big enough to hold the entire CD. That being done, I tried again installing RH 6.1. This time, I was able to get a lot farther along in the installation. It was able to find the CD contents on my HD just fine. So, I proceeded. Then, after specifying root password, user id and password, and so forth, it started cranking with the install. Then, it failed with the following message: "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/comps.py", line 50, in __init__ name = h[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME] TypeError: unsubscriptable object I know that this is not in the PCMCIA realm. But, if I ever get this thing loaded, I'll be back! I found, however, that there is a zero byte file in that directory. I'm following-up. What a pain! Steve

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