On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 08:13 -0700, Ken Godee wrote:

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[root@linserv1 cdrom]# cat /etc/issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5) Kernel \r on an \m

[root@linserv1 cdrom]# cat /etc/issue.net Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5) Kernel \r on an \m

[root@linserv1 cdrom]# uname -a Linux linserv1.mullenpr.com 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 25 14:26:33 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Any suggestions?

(this is a centOS 3.5 system)...

I've not installed arcserve, but this is what I've done for others....

/etc/redhat-release

changed from... CentOS release 3.5 (Final)

changed to... Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (taroon)

---- I had already done that...

[root@linserv1 cdrom]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5)

but I forgot to make note of it above

I wonder if Taroon Update 5 is the problem, perhaps I should lie and suggest Update 3 on those... hmmm

Craig

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:31 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:

On 19/09/05, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

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[root@linserv1 cdrom]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5)

but I forgot to make note of it above

I wonder if Taroon Update 5 is the problem, perhaps I should lie and suggest Update 3 on those... hmmm

Isn't the installer just a shell script? Couldn't you just prod around inside and see what it's specifically looking for?

---- damn - why didn't I think of that?

relevant section (I think)...

case "$LINUX_DIST" in RedHat) #redhat kernel version rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.4.2" ) if [ $rtn -eq 2 ];then echo $INST_REDHAT_MINIMAL exit 1 fi rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.5.0" ) if [ $rtn -eq 1 ];then DIST_TOO_NEW="YES" fi if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then cat /etc/redhat-release | ${GREP} 'release 3| release 2.1|3.0' | $GREP -v $GREP_S 1>/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" fi else OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" fi ;;

Looks strange - (I took the liberty of removing some of the line indentations for readability). I would think that the 'release 3' part should succeed.

Craig

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:14 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:

On 19/09/05, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:31 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:

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Isn't the installer just a shell script? Couldn't you just prod around inside and see what it's specifically looking for?

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damn - why didn't I think of that?

relevant section (I think)...

  case "$LINUX_DIST" in
     RedHat)
              #redhat kernel version
              rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.4.2" )
              if [ $rtn -eq 2 ];then
                echo $INST_REDHAT_MINIMAL
                exit 1
              fi
              rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.5.0" )
              if [ $rtn -eq 1 ];then
                DIST_TOO_NEW="YES"
              fi
              if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
                cat /etc/redhat-release | ${GREP} 'release 3|

release 2.1|3.0' | $GREP -v $GREP_S 1>/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" fi else OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" fi ;;

Looks strange - (I took the liberty of removing some of the line indentations for readability). I would think that the 'release 3' part should succeed.

What's GREP_S being set to elsewhere?

---- I don't know because I don't see how GREP_S is being set at all. ----

Really you could safely just comment out everything from "if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ];" to its corresponding "fi" and just set OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" in there and bypass the rest.

----- here's the kicker, this is of course on the installation cd and I can't edit and run it without copying off the entire contents of the cd (since the file locations are all relative to 'install' which is of course on the root level of the cd itself.

Craig

On 19/09/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez@ivazquez.net wrote:

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:36 -0700, Craig White wrote:

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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:14 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:

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Really you could safely just comment out everything from "if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ];" to its corresponding "fi" and just set OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES" in there and bypass the rest.

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here's the kicker, this is of course on the installation cd and I can't edit and run it without copying off the entire contents of the cd (since the file locations are all relative to 'install' which is of course on the root level of the cd itself.

cp -ls is your friend.

Or dd the whole CD to disk if he has the space available (likely nowadays), then mount in 'rw' as a iso9660 loopback device. Replace $user with a valid username/location.

mkdir /mnt/tmpiso/ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/$user/temp.iso mount -o loop -t iso9660 /home/$user/temp.iso /mnt/tempiso

That should be writable IIRC. If not, mess about with the mount options until it is. Edit away and you should be fine.

Will.