Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
Did you check the debug consoles (alt-Fx)?
I'm not sure what this is.
There are several consoles available during install and boot. If you hit Alt+F1, you'll see the "regular" install/boot text. If you hit Alt+F2, you'll see debug outputs of portions of the install/boot process.
Thanks. Actually I did know about these, though I've never used them. I misunderstood the poster; I thought he/she was pointing to a file that I should have downloaded.
In fact there was a Debug button to press when the process failed. I looked at the output of this, but it didn't really help. It seemed to say that the installation was looking for a file in /dev/sdb7//ext2/ where /dev/sdb7 was the device holding the DVD.
I guess that, as pointed out, this could be something on the 2nd DVD.
On the other hand, I googled for the error message, and it seemed several others had had the same problem. That was why I asked if anyone had actually succeeded in installing CentOS-5.6 from the hard disk.