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Re: Prerelease-test1-rc1 XFS install CD

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Subject: Re: Prerelease-test1-rc1 XFS install CD
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:05:22 -0600
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Matthew Geier wrote:
 
>  Ok, it died on my Dell :-(
> 
>  Ive got an Anaconda backtrace -
> KeyError hda3
> fstab.py line 729 in mountFilesystems fstype=self.formatType[device[)

Argh, I think I know what this is... do you have more of the backtrace
so I can be sure?
Out of curiosity, were you mixing ext2 and xfs partitions?  (You should
be able to, but there might be a thinko in there...)

> > Ohh  Ya this CD only contains updated rpm images, you will need
> > a copy of the RedHat 7.0 disk 1 and 2 to actually do the install.
> 
>  At which point do you change in the disks ?

After the backtrace.  :)  Seriously, when it starts installing RPMS it
will prompt you to start switching disks.

>  I had a stab at modifing the bootnet.img but all I got was kernel
> panics. I was bumbing about in the dark trying to modify the boot
> floppy.

Was your failure above with the bootnet.img image, or straight from the
CD boot?

-Eric

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