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Re: Installation failure - incorrect disk

To: Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Installation failure - incorrect disk
From: Net Llama! <netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:48:08 -0500 (EST)
Cc: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040519145513.GD23231@xxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 19 May 2004, Nathan Straz wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:11:23PM -0700, tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I've tried every single release and I can not get *ome*
> > of them to install... I use the SGI XFS disc one to
> > start the process and then when the install asks for
> > the regular disk it always returns with an error saying
> > it's not the correct disk... What am I doing wrong
> > here?
>
> I'll guess that you're trying to install an older version of Redhat with
> an SGI XFS installer.  I remember at one point Redhat updated the CDs
> without changing the version and I think we respun the installer to
> accept the new discs.
>
> Regardless, you're probably trying to install an old version of XFS.  I
> would recommend a more recent distro that supports XFS natively.  I know
> the SuSE, Mandrake and Debian all support XFS.  I have used the Debian
> sarge beta installers[1] with good success.

Fedora Core 2 also support XFS.

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