Red Hat 5.2 no longer installable from DRAC?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 10:29:26 CDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Herta Van den Eynde
<herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Red Hat EL 5.2 on a Dell PE 1850 via the DRAC 4
> card, with rhel-5.2-server-i386-disc1.iso mounted as virtual media.  At
> the boot prompt, I hit <Enter>, which should start the graphical
> installation, but it starts off with a text installation.  I am asked
> - whether I want to test the media, which I skip
> - what language I want to use - I select "English"
> - what keyboard I have - I select "us"
> - the installation method - "What type of media contains the packages

It sounds like either the cdrom image is bad (either locally or via
the network). I am pretty sure we were able to install 5.2 via drac
last week via the DVD image.





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