Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:05:34 -0800 Received: from mail11.jump.net ([206.196.91.11]:13520 "EHLO mail11.jump.net") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:05:29 -0800 Received: from sgi.com (aus-dsl-dhcp1-26.customer.jump.net [63.163.168.26]) by mail11.jump.net (8.10.2/) with ESMTP id f0875Sm13594 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:05:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A5966B2.5D14270C@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:05:22 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-prerelease i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Prerelease-test1-rc1 XFS install CD References: <3A568E9B.F7D842DC@thebarn.com> <3A594AF3.40F7A9F1@arts.usyd.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-xfs-outgoing 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