Step 3 - Do You Need Errata?

Occasionally, we find that the installation may fail, and that a revised diskette image is needed for the installation to work properly. In these cases, we make special images available via the Red Hat Linux errata listing. Since this is relatively rare, you will save time if you try to use the standard diskette images first. Review the errata only if you experience problems completing the installation.

Although most of the time it's not necessary to check for errata before the installation, it is also not a bad idea, either.

Red Hat offers updated diskette images, documentation and other errata downloads for your convenience.

There are two ways to review the errata:

Online -- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata; supplies errata you can read online, and you can download diskette images easily.
E-mail -- By sending an empty mail message to <errata@redhat.com>, you will receive an e-mail containing a text listing of the complete errata of the installation program and related software (if errata exist at that time). Also included are URLs to each updated package and diskette image in the errata. Using these URLs, you can download any necessary diskette images. Please note: use binary mode when transferring a diskette image.

If you experience problems, focus on entries that include new diskette images (the filenames always end in .img). If you find an entry that applies to your problem, get a copy of the diskette images, and create them using the instructions in the section called Making Installation Diskettes.

Also available are documentation errata. When significant changes are made to the manuals, we make sure to update these online as well. Documentation updates can be found at http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/doc_errata/.