install not recognizing RHEL

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:31 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> On 19/09/05, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [root@linserv1 cdrom]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
> > 
> > but I forgot to make note of it above
> > 
> > I wonder if Taroon Update 5 is the problem, perhaps I should lie and
> > suggest Update 3 on those... hmmm
> 
> Isn't the installer just a shell script? Couldn't you just prod around
> inside and see what it's specifically looking for?
> 
----
damn - why didn't I think of that?

relevant section (I think)...

       case "$LINUX_DIST" in
          RedHat)
                   #redhat kernel version
                   rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.4.2" )
                   if [ $rtn -eq 2 ];then
                     echo $INST_REDHAT_MINIMAL
                     exit 1
                   fi
                   rtn=$(version_compare $VERSION "2.5.0" )
                   if [ $rtn -eq 1 ];then
                     DIST_TOO_NEW="YES"
                   fi
                   if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
                     cat /etc/redhat-release | ${GREP} 'release 3|
release 2.1|3.0' | $GREP -v $GREP_S 1>/dev/null 2>&1
                     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
                        OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES"
                     fi
                   else
                     OS_NOT_CERTIFIED="YES"
                   fi
                   ;;

Looks strange - (I took the liberty of removing some of the line
indentations for readability). I would think that the 'release 3' part
should succeed.

Craig



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