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Re: RH 8.0 installer (1.2pre1) crashes on Dell Latitude C610

To: Bernhard Erdmann <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RH 8.0 installer (1.2pre1) crashes on Dell Latitude C610
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 01 Nov 2002 13:10:29 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3DC2C797.2070501@berdmann.de>
References: <3DC2C797.2070501@berdmann.de>
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Hi Bernhard - that's a known bug... you can work around it by putting
this file on an ext2-formatted floppy, and booting with the "updates"
parameter.   (if you can get it to do an X install, you'll be fine as
well).

-Eric



On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 12:27, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> stock RH 8.0 installs with no problems on a Dell Latitude C610 (laptop).
> 
> SGI XFS 1.2a installer for RH 8.0 via bootnet.img on a floppy crashes 
> right after having selected language (english) and keyboard (german).
> 
> The anaconda dump was saved to a floppy and is available here:
> http://berdmann.dyndns.org/debug/SGI-XFS-1.2a/Dell-Latitude-C610/anacdump.txt
> 
> The SGI installer booted off a CD crashes, too.
> 
-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.         651-683-3102

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