[RULE] slinky fails using up2date RedHat 9 CD-ROMs

[Michael Fratoni]

On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:25, John Reiser wrote:
> slinky-v0.3.96 failed to install a completely up2date set of RedHat 9
> CD-ROMs: KRUD Version 9 from December 2003
> (http://www.tummy.com/krud/). slinky was
> http://www.rule-project.org/download/slinky/slinky-v0.3.96.iso . The
> initial part of the install_log appears at the end of this message.
> The hardware is reliable: was running Win95 OK, passed memtest (32MB
> RAM).

Slinky is designed to install the "official" Red Hat release, it will 
fail if you attempt to install from updated media. (Unless you update 
all of the package lists, see the README file.)

> This install experience shows a number of problems.
> 1. I asked the install for RedHat version 9, yet the error message
>     says version 8 ("kernel-2.4.20-8.i586.rpm").  The kernel on the
> CD-ROM is kernel-2.4.20-24.9; why wasn't it used?  This is confusing.

kernel-2.4.20-8 is the version of the kernel shipped with Red Hat 9.

> 2. umount and eject belong in busybox for robustness.

Until the end of installation, when the "real" versions of the above 
should be available. Since any updated packages included on your media 
wouldn't have installed, the binaries don't exist...

-Michael

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