[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[kbrannen@gte.net]

fredjame wrote:
> I understand the frustration, and not to be a "one trick poney", but did 
> you try the boot floppy - assuming the DL380 has a floppy drive.  
> Honestly, I have had good experience with the floppy solving this type 
> of problem, though I am not sure why that should be so.  Of course, my 
> answer to RH9 (assuming that is what we are still talking about) was 
> Mandrake 9.1 - a very good choice for me (YMMV).  Hope this helps.

Since the error actually happened to me (I work with/for Chris), I can say 
that "no, I didn't think of that".  I'll have to try it if I ever (hopefully 
not) have to do another RH9.0 install on a DL380.

I'm just really peaved that it booted from the CD, then "lost" it when I tried 
to pick the install device (plan A).  It would not do a network install either 
(plan B).  I fianlly succeeded by first installing Suse 8.2, which had no 
problems BTW, and used that to copy the ISO images to the disk, and then 
installed using the hard drive as the install media (plan C).  If plan C had 
failed, I was ready to give up.  But I guess I've got a plan D if need be, 
though I can't imagine what that would make a difference; but then I also 
can't imagine why it would "lose" the CD and it did.  Grrr!

Kevin

> 
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>> fredjame wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> Beginning with RH9 (I skipped from 7.3 to 9, so I have never tried 
>>> 8.x) I am fan of Mandrake (editorial note: of Mandrake, I have only 
>>> tried 9.1).
>>> However, as to failing to boot an install from CD - my experience is 
>>> this is fixed by making a floppy from the boot.img file on the CD, 
>>> and booting from the floppy - not going to work on a system that 
>>> doesn't have a floppy drive, of course.
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem isn't in booting, the DL380 boots the CD fine... then
>> when it says what do you want to install from... it says it cannot
>> find a CDROM device (strange when you realize that it boots
>> off of the CD just fine).
>>
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