Re: virt-install hell: how to *force* a local CD-ROM install?

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At Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:26:12 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > The command line I am using is:
> >
> > sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \
> > 	--os-variant=fedora12 \
> > 	--location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \
> > 	--disk="path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest"
> 
> I have never used virt-install or Fedora 15 but, maybe you have to do the
> same here like when installing RHEL6 using the iso image on a NFS server:
> In the directory where the ISO is, you have to create a directory called
> images and put the install.img from the DVD there. For RHEL6.1 the
> dirlisting looks like this:
> 
> [root@blubb i386]# ll -R
> .:
> total 3496772
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       4096 May 19 18:20 images
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root        204 May 19 18:13 MD5SUMS
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  218103808 May 12 12:53 rhel-server-6.1-i386-boot.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3066486784 May 13 07:13 rhel-server-6.1-i386-dvd.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  292583424 May 13 15:33
> rhel-server-supplementary-6.1-i386-dvd.iso
> 
> ./images:
> total 132152
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 135184384 May 11 00:30 install.img
> 
> Just a guess but you could give it a try.
> 
> Simon

I found the problem -- I think I was selecting some *off screen* when
tabing to the 'next' button using the GUI installer -- part of the GUI
is off screen.  (I am forced to use the GUI installer, since the text
installer won't install things the way I want to (minimual install,
using an ext3 file system).  When I just hit return on the boot setup
screen, it works (worked) properly.  There is something really wrong
with either virt-viewer or the FC15 installer -- either virt-viewer is
lying about the screen size or the FC15 installer is making dumb
assumptions about the monitor size or something like that.

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