William, > The third window alerts me that "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 disk 3 > needed to install packages" ... > I cannot find how to direct Red Hat's tools to find the materials, > which are -already- mounted in a subdirectory under /mnt. And > advice on how to do so?
How did you create the subdirectory under /mnt? Maybe only CDs 1 and 2 were copied. Also, the RedHat documentation does not specify that the .discinfo file on CD1 is needed. That is real important. I don't want to start another script like mkrhel4root.sh, but here is the Q&D code I used to create a tree (from the directory with the 4 RHEL4 64-bit Update 2 CDs). It is easier than SLES's requirements: ------cut----- #!/bin/bash # make a temporary mount point (tmpcd) and the target directory (rhel4root) if [ -d rhel4root ]; then echo "Error: directory rhel4root already exists - exiting" exit 1 fi mkdir rhel4root if [ $? != 0 ]; then # unable to mkdir echo "Error: unable to mkdir rhel4root - exiting" exit 2 fi if [ ! -d tmpcd ]; then mkdir tmpcd; fi if [ $? != 0 ]; then # unable to mkdir echo "Error: unable to make directory tmpcd - exiting" exit 3 fi # mount and copy CD1 mount -o loop,ro RHEL4-U2-s390x-AS-disc1.iso tmpcd echo " Mounting and copying disc1.iso ..." if [ $? != 0 ]; then # unable to mount echo "Error: unable to mount RHEL4-s390x-AS-disc1.iso over tmpcd - exiting" exit 4 fi cp -a tmpcd/RedHat rhel4root cp -a tmpcd/RELEASE-NOTES* rhel4root cp -a tmpcd/images rhel4root cp -a tmpcd/.discinfo rhel4root umount tmpcd # mount and copy remaining 3 CDs for i in RHEL4-U2-s390x-AS-disc2 RHEL4-U2-s390x-AS-disc3 RHEL4-U2-s390x-AS-disc4 do echo " Mounting and copying $i.iso ..." mount -o loop,ro $i.iso tmpcd cp -a tmpcd/RedHat rhel4root umount tmpcd done rmdir tmpcd ------cut----- Hope this helps. "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
