On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:42:52PM -0500, Jason Pierce wrote:
> I got a similar error message trying to do an ftp install. I think mine
> was "Unable to load(or find?) the second stage image". Sounds like the
> same thing to me. I was trying to do an ftp install of Redhat and Mandrake
> (not at the same time) via ethernet connection to a 98 box with a lan ftp
> setup.
>
> Any ideas as to what the problem is and how it can be fixed? Jason Pierce
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Have you tried specifying the IP address of the FTP server, rather than
the host name. That works for me for NFS installations. I conjecture that
the reason is that the target machine has no /etc/hosts file on it during
the installation.
>
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> On 10|06|2000| at 04|33 PM| Rohit Singh wrote:
>
> R>Hi,
> R> I am trying to install Linux on my PC. I tried to install it over the
> R>network. After writing the boot-image to floppy and booting it, it asked
> R>for my machine's network particulars. After that it asked for the FTP
> site
> R>and the directory. Here I specified:
> R> FTP Site: sulinux.stanford.edu
> R> RedHat Directory: /pub/sulinux-1.1/i386
> R> OR
> R> /pub/sulinux-1.1/i386/RedHat
> R>However, the program threw up an error message "Unable to load the second
> R>RAM disk" .
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