On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Has anybody successfully installed CentOS- > > I tried (several times) installing CentOS-5.6 from a hard disk, > and each time it failed after installing all the rpms, > with the warning "The installation has tried to mount image #2, > but cannot find it on the hard drive." > > When I pressed the Debug button one time after the failure, > it seemed to say that it was looking for the file in /dev/sdb7//ext2/ > (/dev/sdb7 being the site of the DVD ISO). > > But I'm not sure what "image #2" is? Or where it should be put? > > Incidentally, I started by copying isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img > to the the directory CentOS-5.6 in the /boot parition > of a working linux (Fedora) system, and adding the stanza > ---------------------------- > title CentOS-5.6 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /CentOS-5.6/vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sdb5:/ > initrd /CentOS-5.6/initrd.img > ---------------------------- > The repo option was ignored, and I was asked if I wanted to install by FTP, > from Hard Disk, etc. > > In the end I installed by http from my web-server, after > mount -o loop CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso /var/www/html/ > on the server . > This worked faultlessly, and seems to be by far the easiest way > to install CentOS or Fedora if a local web-server is available. Strange, I install it from the DVD.iso to VMWare images a couple times a month, haven't seen that issue. Once a new release gets approved for production, I copy the contents of the DVD.iso to our PXE Boot server, and install production machines from there. (FWIW, I have not installed in onto real hardware, from a real DVD, in a couple years now..) Are you sure your DVD matches the checksums? -- Don Krause Head Systems Geek, Waver of Deceased Chickens. Optivus Proton Therapy, Inc. P.O. Box 608 Loma Linda, California 92354 909.799.8327 Tel 909.799.8366 Fax dkrause@xxxxxxxxxxx www.optivus.com "This message represents the official view of the voices in my head."
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