[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[fredjame]

I understand the frustration, and not to be a "one trick poney", but did 
you try the boot floppy - assuming the DL380 has a floppy drive.  
Honestly, I have had good experience with the floppy solving this type 
of problem, though I am not sure why that should be so.  Of course, my 
answer to RH9 (assuming that is what we are still talking about) was 
Mandrake 9.1 - a very good choice for me (YMMV).  Hope this helps.

Chris Cox wrote:

> fredjame wrote:
> ...
>
>> Beginning with RH9 (I skipped from 7.3 to 9, so I have never tried 
>> 8.x) I am fan of Mandrake (editorial note: of Mandrake, I have only 
>> tried 9.1).
>> However, as to failing to boot an install from CD - my experience is 
>> this is fixed by making a floppy from the boot.img file on the CD, 
>> and booting from the floppy - not going to work on a system that 
>> doesn't have a floppy drive, of course.
>
>
> The problem isn't in booting, the DL380 boots the CD fine... then
> when it says what do you want to install from... it says it cannot
> find a CDROM device (strange when you realize that it boots
> off of the CD just fine).
>
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