As mentioned in my previous post I just completed a rebuild on my new dns/mail server. And it was almost a disaster.
When loading from CDs I would get a dialog that an rpm could not be found, perhaps bad media. I would pop out the CD, click OK and things continued. Until finally it would not. I had two copies of the CDs and neither worked!
So I happened to have the CDs on my web server (NT running Apache 2.something old) and since these systems were on the same subnet I opted for an HTTP install.
Got that going and about 25% in, it hung. And no way to tell it, please try the server again. (other systems could access the server and see the files in question).
I tried to get apache running on another Linux system I am building but took a wrong turn there so I desperation I tried the CD install. Everything was working this time until disk 3 about the last rpm. ARGH! So I took the CD out and cleaned it really well, and it found the rpm ni question.
Oh what a weekend.
I have GOT to get a good way to do an install......
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:16 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
As mentioned in my previous post I just completed a rebuild on my new dns/mail server. And it was almost a disaster.
When loading from CDs I would get a dialog that an rpm could not be found, perhaps bad media. I would pop out the CD, click OK and things continued. Until finally it would not. I had two copies of the CDs and neither worked!
So I happened to have the CDs on my web server (NT running Apache 2.something old) and since these systems were on the same subnet I opted for an HTTP install.
Got that going and about 25% in, it hung. And no way to tell it, please try the server again. (other systems could access the server and see the files in question).
I tried to get apache running on another Linux system I am building but took a wrong turn there so I desperation I tried the CD install. Everything was working this time until disk 3 about the last rpm. ARGH! So I took the CD out and cleaned it really well, and it found the rpm ni question.
Oh what a weekend.
I have GOT to get a good way to do an install......
I've done more than 500 http installs and 150 CD/DVD installs with only 2 problems (both were scratched media).
Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
As mentioned in my previous post I just completed a rebuild on my new dns/mail server. And it was almost a disaster. When loading from CDs ... So I happened to have the CDs on
my
web server ... opted for an HTTP install.
I've never had an issue installing from .iso image files, or NFS exported install tree. In fact, I typically install via NFS from my tested install tree of updated RPMs.
I have GOT to get a good way to do an install......
Plop the install tree out into a NFS exported directory. Feel free to mix in updated RPMs and run "genhdlist". Saves you a number of steps after installation.
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