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re: Test RH 7.2 installer available

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Subject: re: Test RH 7.2 installer available
From: Michael Best <mbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:57:20 -0700
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Things that I noticed in the installer:

When I selected update, the installer thought that my main xfs partition
was a swap file and wouldn't let me mount it as '/', so I had to choose
to format it.

When running in expert mode from the install floppy, I wasn't prompted
for NIS installation information like I have been in the past for Redhat
installers.  ( I don't know if this is specific to the SGI installer, or
Redhat related )

I tried GRUB and it didn't work for me, so I booted the floppy and XFS
cdrom read the grub instructions and made a GRUB boot floppy, but it
appeared that it thought my main partition was ext2 at startup and
refused to start dumping me to filesystem repair instead.

I eventually reinstalled and used Lilo.

-Mike


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