-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:48 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB install annoyances (not OT)
John Doe wrote:
From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
I've retried again, and it still fails. I see that it's mounted /dev/sda2, which is where I've got the contents of a DVD, as
/mnt/isolinux.
Unless you specifically need the DVD contents, maybe try with the ISOs instead...
This doesn't vaguely answer my question.
I think it does, but not to the detail level you need. Details below.
The install.img mounted the partition, by itself, as /mnt/isolinux. That's what *IT* did. I
thought
I had the partition as a clone of the dvd by mount -o loop and rsync.
But I've just rebuilt the USB key partition from the latest 2 DVDs we have locally (I rsync'd Pagckages/. from the second one into the Packages directory I made when I rsync'd the first DVD, so it should look like
a
one-disk DVD. As soon as that finishes, I'll try another time....
Unless someone has the explicit answer to what is the image, or directory, the install.img wants to mount to get the repo, please don't reply.
From what I recall: you can * boot the USB * layout and format the disks (we assume using anaconda) And when you get towards package selection, anaconda fails indicating ' that it can't find "image# 1".'
The "image# 1" it is looking for is the .iso which could have been burnt to a DVD for doing the install, i.e., not something from the images directory from THAT iso.
As RHEL6 anaconda derives from something post the rawhide that I submitted the following bug on, it may help you understand. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976
summary: anaconda will not trust any mounted file system for the rpm's to install, it only trusts media images and http.
I hope this helps you, of course I could always be wrong.