RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...

[Net Llama!]

On 10/21/2002 10:05 AM, Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:24:44 +0000 Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:35:50 -0600 Andrew Mathews
>>
>>[ snips ]
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>>>Have you tried 7.3 on this machine? They're both
>>>2.4.18 kernels, and 7.3 on XFS is what we're using on production
>>>servers now. If you have the bandwidth to grab the iso's, get them
>>>at:
>>>ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.1/installer/installer/i386/RH7.3-SGI-XFS-1.1.iso
>>>
>>>for the XFS installer image, and
>>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc1.iso
>>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc2.iso
>>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso
>>>for the os cd's. Or contact me off list for an alternative method.
>>>Isn't this fun? <g>
>>>-- 
>>
> 
> OK, so I tried all this, and the SGI 7.3 installer works like a champ
> until it gets time to request the first RedHat CD, then it will not
> accept the CD "wrong CD, try again".  Any clues.
> 
> I did everything as described here, except that the RedHat CDs came
> from a mirror.  All 3 CDs matched the md5sum published on the site.

Did you read the errata on the SGI site about the CDs?  You need to 
apply a patch to the XFS image with xdelta because Redhat changed their 
CD1 image.

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