I've created a VM and booted from an ISO image.  /oldroot is mounted to 
/dev/root but I found no /dev/root or /dev/cdrom device. The /oldroot directory 
is empty

This is the output if I run astinstall from the console. not to sure where to 
go from here.

Installing to /dev/hda...                                                       
                   
tar: can't open '/oldroot/cdrom/runnix-*.tar.gz': No such file or directory
cat: can't open '/tmp/runnix-*/mbr.bin': No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/astinstall: line 119: syslinux: command not found
cp: cannot stat '/tmp/runnix-*/rootfs_vfat/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/root.squashfs': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/astlinux-0.7.2.run.conf': No such file or 
directory
cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img': No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/astinstall: line 134: cd: /tmp/runnix/os: No such file or directory
sha1sum: can't open 'astlinux-0.7.2.run': No such file or directory
touch: /tmp/runnix/os/astflag: No such file or directory


On 10/08/2010, at 1:01 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote:

> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>  On 8/9/10 3:15 PM, John Novack wrote:
>>> Any plans to fix the install script on the ISO? A couple of folks I was
>>> trying to interest in AstLinux report that install from the ISO is broken.
>>> 
>>> Also, one wag installed AstLinux to an 80 Gig Hard drive, and after a
>>> couple of attempts discovered that the timer built into the setup web
>>> page wasn't long enough for an 80 gig drive to finish formatting!
>>> 
>>> Don't ask me why he wanted to install on an 80 Gig drive!
>>> 
>>> John Novack
>>> 
>> 
>> Actually, it seems to be a fairly trivial fix...  I'm guessing it's a one 
>> liner.
>> 
>> I just don't have the time nor the VM set up to quickly do testing/debugging.
>> 
>> Someone previously pointed out that it was looking for the image at a 
>> particular mount point, but said that wasn't present... which was mildly 
>> helpful.
>> 
>> What would have been even more helpful would have been telling us what was 
>> mounted, and where, at that exact moment.
>> 
>> It could just be that everything needed is present... just not in the right 
>> places... and a simple one line path change needs to happen.
> 
> It's more than one line, but not too much more than that.
> 
> It's a matter of reading through the bat files on the iso.  There really 
> could be one iso with all of the install images on it.  That would 
> definitely be a few more lines.
> 
> It's on the list, but not at the top of the list.  If someone wanted to 
> make an attempt at this, we'd accept that work.
> 
> Darrick
> 
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