Is it just finding the mount point for /mnt/cdrom? or the /dev/ itself? Before it gets to that point in the detection you could try and ALT+CTRL to a login window and make a symbolic link of the cdrom to the USB device you want to use. Also, I know Slackware installs usually asks you or offers to detect the install medium. Is there a way to force this distro CD to go interactive and let you specify the location?
Michael Gorman On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought a portable, usb-connectable, dvd/cd drive for installing > software on machines without built-in CD-ROM drives. > > I tried using it to install the latest Trixbox, on a system WITH a > CD-ROM drive, to see if it would work. The latest Trixbox distribution > is built on CentOS 5 and uses a kickstart file. > > To make a long story short; it didn't work. It booted fine (with a bios > switch change) and tried to find the kickstart file on the system > CD-ROM instead of on the portable drive. > > I've since found out that a friend and occasional associate has had > similar problems trying to install Blue Quartz (an open-source > webhosting environment) the same way, and also had the problem. > > Any ideas? Anyone been able to install successfully this way? Any > other options you can think of? > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
