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Redhat installer fails with LinuxPPC 1999 when installing over NFS
Trying to install LinuxPPC 1999, on a PowerMac 7200, over NFS.

After entering all the IP and NFS details, the installer seems to hang. Jumping to another console, the following messages show a permissions problem with the NFS-mounted files:
...
* calling mount(octopus-120:/install/AutoInstall/Binaries/Linux/redhat/redhat-5.0/ppc, /tmp/rhimage, nfs, -1058209791, 0x18f9e90)
* method selection completed
* writing network information to /tmp/ifcfg-eth0
* state saved to /tmp
* error in exec of second stage loader :-(
*       error:Permission denied

This NFS image was mirrored from linuxppc-R5-final/RedHat on one of the local sites. The problem is caused by the permissions of the files in the RedHat/instimage/usr/bin directory:

% ls -l  /install/AutoInstall/Binaries/Linux/redhat/redhat-5.0/ppc/RedHat/instimage/usr/bin
total 7390
drwxr-xr-x   2 nigel    nigel        512 Jul  8 16:29 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 nigel    nigel        512 Jul  8 16:24 ..
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      82152 May 19 10:38 ash
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel       8976 May 19 10:38 badblocks
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel     565976 May 19 10:39 bash
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 cat -> install2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 chmod -> install2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      27148 May 19 10:38 cp
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      17332 May 19 10:38 df
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel     459248 May 19 10:38 e2fsck
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      70568 May 19 10:38 fdisk
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      12032 May 19 10:38 fsck
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel     459248 May 19 10:38 fsck.ext2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      84164 May 19 10:38 grep
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      38020 May 19 10:38 ifconfig
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel     746888 May 19 10:39 install2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel       4325 Mar 11 08:25 ldd
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      14836 May 19 10:38 ln
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      35136 May 19 10:38 ls
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 lsmod -> install2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 mkdir -> install2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      18528 May 19 10:38 mke2fs
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 mknod -> install2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 mount -> install2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      72624 May 19 10:39 pdisk
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      21988 May 19 10:39 ping
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      14972 May 19 10:39 ps
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 rm -> install2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel      37756 May 19 10:39 route
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel     892396 May 19 10:39 rpm
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel        130 Mar 30 00:47 runinstall2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          4 Jul  8 16:29 sh -> bash
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nigel    nigel          8 Jul  8 16:29 umount -> install2
-r--r--r--   1 nigel    nigel       8116 May 19 10:39 wc

I think all of those files need to have a chmod +x
partation problem
i had facing windows and linux dual boot problem 
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nigel@ind.tansu.com.au, pgorthekar@yahoo.com
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