On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Kalin Mintchev wrote: > > > anybody from redhat on this? or should i CONTRACT technical support for > > $$$$$ so somebody can explain what is wrong with the installation program > > or what am i doing wrong?????!?????????!!!!! > > Not from Red Hat, nor have I tried a local hard drive install of 7.3, but > here's a thought. > > > > > > > > > > > > > i'm trying to install 7.3 on a machine that has 2 hard drives. i > > > > > have the > > > > > > ISOs in a directory on one of the hard drives and trying to > > > > > install them > > > > > > to the other. i start the installation program from a floppy and > > > > > when it > > > > > > gets to the point where i have to specify the directory where the > > > > > ISOs are > > > > > > i do so but the install doesn't find them. i get this: > > > > > > > > > > > > Failed to read directory /tmp/hdimage/my/dir/ > > > > > > > > > > > > it puts /tmp/hdimage/ every time in front of the directory i > > > > > specify.... > > > > > > > > > > > > should i create /tmp/hdimage/ directory so it can finally find it? > > > > > > > > > > > > any help will be appreciated... >
thanks Matthew,..... > How is the install program supposed to know which disk to find the images > on? there is a dialog window/interface that is asking to specify the disk and the directory where the images are... the installer sees the disk - hdc1 - but after i specify the directory (as described on redhat's website) i get directory not found... > When the installer starts, it creates its own file system, with its yea, i know and that's where i think this /tmp/hdimage resides. and should find the images directory i point to because it's there. anyway i'll keep triying... the other problem i have right now is that if i wan to write the images i have to have X installed to use "the highly configurable" Roast.... is there a command line utility to do that in redhat?!?.... > own /, /usr, etc., in a ramdisk. So it can't mount your disks in their > usual places. It looks for existing ext2 partitions and mounts them under > /tmp/hdimage. I don't recall the exact structure of the tree under > /tmp/hdimage, but you can find out. > > Boot the install CD-ROM and at the first screen prompt, enter "linux > rescue". You go though some dialog boxes (including the one where it > detects an existing installation and mounts it under /tmp/hdimage. Then > you can go look and see how it put things together. From there, you'll be > able to discover the complete path to your images, which will start with > /tmp/hdimage. Enter the remainder of the path when you are prompted using > the installer. > > If you can't boot from CD-ROM, you might still be able to run "linux > rescue" from the install floppy. I'm not sure about that. > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
