[TriLUG] Mirroring RedHat 9 -- Net Install FTP/Boot CD issue

[Jeff Bollinger]

I rsync'ed the RHAT Linux 9 distribution from Ibiblio.org for a local 
FTP server that I've set up.  I know that there is a known issue with 
the network/ftp install that has supposedly been resolved:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88884

This fix only seems to work for the boot floppies though, and not the CD 
image (boot.iso).  Has anyone seen a fix for that?  I prefer to do the 
network install with a bootable CD instead of the multiple floppies for 
a number of reasons.

Here's what I have in my /..../en/os/i386/RedHat/base

> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users     8257380 Mar 13  2003 comps.rpm
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users      642457 Mar 13  2003 comps.xml
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users     9728936 Mar 13  2003 hdlist
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users    19066344 Mar 13  2003 hdlist2
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users    10170368 Mar 13  2003 hdstg2.img
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users    10502144 Mar 13  2003 netstg2.img
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users    64114688 Mar 13  2003 stage2.img
> -rw-r--r--    1 redhat   users      131072 Sep 11 15:52 updates.img

I see that updates.img file in there, which I'm assuming is the fix, but 
I still get the "unable to read header list" error when I do the FTP install

I get the "Retrieving /base/netstg2.img" but after the pre-configuration 
phase during "Reading package information..." I get "Unable to read 
header list.  This may be due to a missing file or bad media.  Press 
<return> to try again."

Is there away to get the FTP install to work using the bootable 
installer CD (typically located at 
/home/redhat/9/en/os/i386/images/boot.iso)?

Thanks!
Jeff

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Jeff Bollinger, CISSP
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
105 Abernethy Hall
mailto: jeff @unc dot edu