RedHat Question

[Maurice L. Entwistle]

If you want to drop by my house, I will loan you Mandrake 6.0, which is Red
Hat with improvements, or I have a version of 5.1 you can have.

Maurice Entwistle  531-2806

CYBERAARON wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to install RedHat 6.1 from scratch (totally, no cd
> or disks).  I downloaded the bootnet image and imaged a floppy with it,
> then booted.  I select FTP for media and enter all my IP information.
> Then it asks me for an FTP site and directory.  After succesfully
> connecting to one of the mirror sites with another machine (to make sure
> it's up) I enter the ftp and the appropriate path then go.  It hangs for
> about 5 minutes then comes back and says it couldn't retrieve the
> secondary ramdisk and gives me an error.  Now, sometimes this error is
> different, sometimes it's Success (but it still says error) and
> sometimes it says Bad Server Response.  I am using a Kingston KNE120-TX
> network card (according to redhat it's supported - ne2000 pci) hooked to
> my DSL router.  I am 98% sure that i selected the right network card
> durring install and 100% sure about my IP's... the problem is in the FTP
> site I believe...  If anyone has done this I would be grateful for any
> suggestions.  Redhat doesn't provide much support on obtaining thier
> software through free methods... would you? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
>