A third version of this problem turned up ... I tried to install from SL5.5-DVD using a DVD-player connected by USB.
Againg, the boot procedure starts (so I am sure the DVD can be found). Then during the loading of USB-drivers the install-program looses track of the DVD-iso... It looks like the installer is loading the drivers in the wrong sequence... Any idea ?? Carel van der Werf From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) Sent: woensdag 1 december 2010 23:40 To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: RE: installing SL5.5 dvd iso into virtual pc Hi, This looks exactly like the question I posted a few days ago about installing SL5.5 from an iso-file on a bootable USB-key. At exactly the same point in the startup sequence the installer mentions it can not find the ISO-file. (but the bootstrap could, hence the installer started) Carel van der Werf ________________________________ From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of umage Sent: Wed 01-Dec-10 22:06 To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: installing SL5.5 dvd iso into virtual pc On 1. 12. 2010 21:45, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:51 AM, umage <theultram...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I'm trying to install SL5.5 using the two dvd iso files into a virtual >> pc virtual machine by mounting them. Problem 1 is that it always goes for >> the console-based installer. Problem 2 is that after clicking through the >> initial questions and choosing the 'Local CDROM' option, I get "The >> Scientific Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives.". It also >> ejects the mounted cd image. >> >> I could not find any relevant documentation. Is anyone familiar with this >> kind of issue? > You would have to provide more detailed information. Which > virtualization software? Virsion? What is the host OS? When you say, > "mounted", did you actually mount the iso files on the host or did you > use the iso file itself as the installation source? etc etc. > > Akemi Pardon. The software is Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. Host OS is windows 7. By mounting I mean inserting the iso image into the virtual cd/dvd device that VPC emulates. The dvd boots and the initial choice menu displays, and I can type in some commands. The console installer always runs, even if I want to run the graphical one. I can choose the language and keyboard, but after choosing the data source to be the virtual cd drive, I get the abovementioned error and the image is ejected from the virtual drive. I could try the remote http/ftp download method, but first I'm asking here to avoid downloading 5 gigs again.
