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by **Tony Schountz, Ph.D** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

I can boot R4, but not R5. I have partitions ready for an R5
installation, but my system doesn't seem to like the R5 installer
(even the new one). My question is, is there a method for installing
R5 onto the partitions that I have available for it?

Thanks,

Tony

by **Stephane Morva** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> I can boot R4, but not R5. I have partitions ready for an R5
> installation, but my system doesn't seem to like the R5 installer
> (even the new one). My question is, is there a method for installing
> R5 onto the partitions that I have available for it?

> Thanks,

> Tony

Why don't you install it like you did not have the R4 partition? Well,
maybe you lack MacOS for that. Tough one. What's your system that does
not like the new installer, and what kind of problem you're having?

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by **Tony Schount** » Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> > I can boot R4, but not R5. I have partitions ready for an R5
> > installation, but my system doesn't seem to like the R5 installer
> > (even the new one). My question is, is there a method for installing
> > R5 onto the partitions that I have available for it?

> > Thanks,

> > Tony

> Why don't you install it like you did not have the R4 partition? Well,
> maybe you lack MacOS for that. Tough one. What's your system that does
> not like the new installer, and what kind of problem you're having?

Here's my most recent post prior to this one:

Quote:> A few days ago I registered my difficulties on getting R5 to install on
> my Supermac C600. Several replies were posted, however none of the
> proposed solutions resolved my difficulties. I appreciate the efforts,
> but I'm beginning to think there is no easy solution to the problem. I'm
> using R4 with only occasional lock-ups (Netscape), but still no R5.

> Interestingly, now when I try to boot using the CD-ROM installer, X
> windows fails to start and I get the RedHat intstaller. But when I
> select the CD-ROM for the installation source, RedHat tries to mount the
> CD-ROM and it fails, with a message stating that the CD-ROM drive is
> busy.

> If I select the hard drive partition on which I have the install files
> copied (according to the work around on the linux.com home page) the
> installer attempts to load the second stage ramdisk (or maybe it's a
> filesystem, can't recall at the moment), then I get knocked out of the
> redhat installer to a blank black line at the bottom of the screen.
> CTRL-Z gets me into a shell. If I type 'install' the redhat installer
> comes back, but all the letters are gray instead of black. No clue what
> this is.

> So, is there a way to intall R5 onto additional partitions that I have
> set up from *within* R4? R4 seems fairly stable and if I can use the
> installer from an R4 xterm that might do the trick for me. My linux set
> up at this point is:

> hda9 = R4 root
> hda10= R4 swap

> hda5 (500m), hda6 (300m), hda7 (200m), and hda8 (100m) are available for
> installing R5.

I'm really not sure how to progress from here.

by **Stephane Morva** » Thu, 15 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Did you set the extra argument in BootX for use w/ the Ramdisk options?
Otherwise it won't fit entirely on memory, and you'll get a message
telling you something's corrupt on the ramdisk. Check the previous post
to find out what is the argument exactly. Sounds like you're having
problem with you I/O subsystem. Your machine probably supports
OpenFirmware, so maybe you can try booting from a floppy..

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by **Jeramy Smit** » Thu, 15 Jul 1999 04:00:00

The easiest way I guess would be if there was a huge tar.gz like the debian
base comes in that you can just gunzip into the partition but alas......

by **Dietmar Herrend?rfe** » Fri, 16 Jul 1999 04:00:00

A somewhat later follow-up to your post

Quote:> So, is there a way to intall R5 onto additional partitions that I have
> set up from *within* R4? R4 seems fairly stable and if I can use the
> installer from an R4 xterm that might do the trick for me. My linux set
> up at this point is:

There is, at least I managed to do this with LinuxPPC5beta some time ago.
However it's not really for beginners. Have a look at the rpm manual page
(you'll need it). In particular have a look at the "--root" option to the
rpm command. It might be helpful to use "--dbpath" too. Use these options
to install all the "base" R5 rpms (by hand using "rpm" - no installer),
somehow overcoming failed dependencies etc. using "--nodeps" and
"--force" options.
Initially don't try to install more than the base system. I think you'll
have to edit at least the <mount_moint>/etc/fstab file of the new(!)
installation, check if the password for root (again on the new system!)
is empty. There might have been other files which need configuring,
but I can't remember. Then try to boot the new R5 root partition - BootX
is quite handy to specify the new root.
Once you can boot the new system you have almost won. I had to reinstall
all the "base" rpms from within the new system, in order to get the
rpm database up to date - probably there is a better way for this.
Then install all the rest you need. This is a bit painful, because you'll
have to satisfy package dependencies by hand, but at least it can be done.

Dietmar Herrend?rfer
University of Kent at Canterbury

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