On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks Lou. i did a directory like but it didn't work either and tried whatever else i could think of...
anybody else has an idea why am i getting this /tmp/hdimage/ in front of the directory i specify?!!? my guess is that this is the intended mounting point for the ISO images. the hd that has the ISOs is only one big ext2 formatted drive and it has only those ISO in a directory like this /new/rh/ISOs_here. the drive is seen as hda1c. so i specify in the installation program that drive and the directory below as /new/rh and then i get this: Failed to read directory /tmp/hdimage/ /my/dir/ what am i doing wrong here?!?!... thanks.... Arlington, Wash. > 27 September 2002 01:38 > > To: Kalin Mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Lou Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Installing from hard drive (/tmp/hdimage/...) > > This reply is something of an educated guess, because I have not > installed any version of Linux in the way you describe. I've always been > able to boot directly from the CD-ROM drive, and have always had only one > hard drive in the computer. However, I once had a situation in which I > was installing Microsquash Weirdows (everyone calls it "Windows," but it > does weird things) onto a hard drive I had divided into three partitions, > but the restoration CD-ROM expected only one partition. In that case, I > had to create a bogus directory on the hard drive and install several > modified configuration files in it, after which the restoration CD-ROM > worked fine. The situation you describe sounds very similar. > > Your suggestion is certainly worth a try. At best, it will work, and > your installation will be a success. At worst, it will fail, and you'll > need to hunt around for other ideas. > > By the way, I agree with your implied statement that the Red Hat > documentation is not very good. For the price I paid for it, I am a bit > annoyed that the manual is a dinky little thing that essentially does > nothing but hold the user's hand. The documentation in SuSE and > Mandrake, which I've used recently, and in Caldera and Correll Linux > distributions, is far superior. > > Good luck. > > Lou Mueller > > > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 04:08:40 -0400 (EDT) Kalin Mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > > it's kind of urgent... > > if anybody has any solution for this problem or can point into a > > direction that might help solving it it will be greatly > > appreciated... i > > already did read the red hat documentation on this a few times but > > there > > isn't anything that promises a solution... > > > > thanks.... > > > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Kalin Mintchev wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > hi all, > > > > > > 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...... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
