[ale] RedHat 5.0 Installation problem

[nlucent at mindspring.com]

Don Allison wrote:
> 
> >I thought I was told by someone that redhat 5 had a problem w/ a
> >particular model of adaptec scsi controller, He had the same problem, So
> >if your using scsi that could be it, he called redhat and they couldnt
> >find a way around it so he ended up putting it on another machine w/ a
> >diff adaptec controller
 
I believe it was an Adaptec 15xx, and Redhat dropped the ball on 5.0,
but it worked w/ 4.2
Dont know if it was ever resolved

> Sounds like problems I had.  My system had an integrated Adaptec 7850
> SCSI controller, and RedHat got to the point of trying to install the boot
> loader and failed everytime (RedHat 4, 4.2, AND 5.0).  If you told it to
> go on it wouldn't boot....if you went to another window and wrote the
> kernel to a floppy, it would boot to the point of talking to the SCSI
> controller and then kernel panic because it couldn't find the hard drive.
> 
> My solution was to finally switch to Slackware 3.4 which worked fine!
> Just choose the 2x4x boot disk and you'll be set.  Of course you won't
> get all the software or RPM package management or GUI setup tools, but
> you WILL get a working Linux system (which in my case was currently
> more important).

You can get rpm from ftp.rpm.org, works very well on slack 3.2 (as long
as the app doesnt require glibc), so I assume it would on other versions
as well


 
> >Jenn-Huei Lii wrote:
> >> `An error occured buring step "Install bootloader" of the install.'
> >>
> >> `You may retry that step,...'
> 
> Yep...and of course retrying doesn't do anything useful, just repeats
> the warning. :-(
> 
> If anyone else has a better solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it as
> well....
> 
> don