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...
How is the install program supposed to know which disk to find the images
on? When the installer starts, it creates its own file system, with its
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.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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