RE: bug in pcmcia inst, can only enter rescue mode, wrong RAID,right hda1 (fwd)

[Max Blanco <mblanco at arrow dot utias dot utoronto dot ca>]

Thank you for your three prompt replies.
I emailed cygwin because I searched thru the redhat site, and this was the
first or second title under "bug pcmcia".
Sorry if I posted to the wrong place, but you can understand my confusion.
I mistakenly assumed cygwin was redhat was linux for (among others) i386
machines, and not much else.

My trouble was: I am attempting to install redhat from one machine onto
another (laptop) machine, through http.  For that I need install disks 
THAT WORK.  Unfortunately, the pcmcia disk image that comes with the
install cdrom (that I have put on floppy and booted up my laptop with) is
RAID based (the only one on the installation image), NOT
IDE.  Nowhere do I find (under rescue mode, on ramdisk) IDE things. 
Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered to report the bug.

Max.

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:36:31 -0400
From: Dennis McCunney <mccunney@bellatlantic.net>
To: mblanco@arrow.utias.utoronto.ca
Subject: RE: bug in pcmcia inst, can only enter rescue mode, wrong RAID,
     right hda1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> mblanco@arrow.utias.utoronto.ca
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:54 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: bug in pcmcia inst, can only enter rescue mode, wrong RAID,
> right hda1
>
> i'm trying to install rh6.2 on a laptop with no RAID.

...

> am i not getting something?

For one thing, you aren't getting the right place to ask the question.  This
mailing list is devoted to the Cygwin tools.  The Cygwin tools are Win32
ports of the standard GNU utilities and development tools, and are intended
to make it easier to port *nix applications to Win32 by providing a POSIX
emulation layer and the development environment a *nix developer is used to.

This forum isn't really about Linux at all.  It's under Red Hat because Red
Hat bought Cygnus Development, the authors of Cygwin, but there is no direct
connection with Red Hat linux.

As to your question, what are you installing Linux _from_?  While Red Hat
Linux supports RAID, it doesn't _have_ to have it.  It should install just
fine on a standard IDE drive.  It sounds like you don't have a standard
distribution and aren't using the regular install program.

> please help!
> max.
_________________________
Dennis McCunney
mccunney@bellatlantic.net


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