Hi to all,
I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says "no CDROm found". Pretty weird. I tried all CentOS 5.5. image available (Live CD, net install, bin 1 of 8, 32 bit and 64 bit). Other installation (Debin, Ubuntu, SLES, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008) worked fine.
Perhaps somebody can help me in setting things up for that.
Michael
On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote:
Hi to all,
I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says "no CDROm found". Pretty weird. I tried all CentOS 5.5. image available (Live CD, net install, bin 1 of 8, 32 bit and 64 bit). Other installation (Debin, Ubuntu, SLES, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008) worked fine.
Perhaps somebody can help me in setting things up for that.
Try again but skip the media check.
Am Mi, 6.04.2011, 14:51 schrieb Markus Falb:
On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote:
Hi to all,
I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says "no CDROm found". Pretty weird. I tried all CentOS 5.5. image available (Live CD, net install, bin 1 of 8, 32 bit and 64 bit). Other installation (Debin, Ubuntu, SLES, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008) worked fine.
Perhaps somebody can help me in setting things up for that.
Try again but skip the media check.
Hm maybe you misunderstand me. The medicheck is not the problem! With or without a mediacheck the installer says "The CentOS CD was not found in any of your drives...." but CentOS boots from it and can do a mediacheck. So there is a CDROM but not for the installer fro installation... I really tried every combination possible!
But I will try the network installation method. Much easier for a VM.
Regards,
Michael
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Michael Zoet Michael.Zoet@zoet.de wrote:
Am Mi, 6.04.2011, 14:51 schrieb Markus Falb:
On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote:
Hi to all,
I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says "no CDROm found". Pretty weird. I tried all CentOS 5.5. image available (Live CD, net install, bin 1 of 8, 32 bit and 64 bit). Other installation (Debin, Ubuntu, SLES, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008) worked fine.
Perhaps somebody can help me in setting things up for that.
Try again but skip the media check.
Hm maybe you misunderstand me. The medicheck is not the problem! With or without a mediacheck the installer says "The CentOS CD was not found in any of your drives...." but CentOS boots from it and can do a mediacheck. So there is a CDROM but not for the installer fro installation... I really tried every combination possible!
But I will try the network installation method. Much easier for a VM.
Regards,
Michael
Use a PXE server with NFS / HTTP shared installation medium :)
On 6.4.2011 15.44, Michael Zoet wrote:
I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says "no CDROm found". Pretty weird. I tried all CentOS 5.5. image available (Live CD, net install, bin 1 of 8, 32 bit and 64 bit). Other installation (Debin, Ubuntu, SLES, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008) worked fine.
Perhaps somebody can help me in setting things up for that.
Did you already solve this?
I do text-based installations with virt-install, and follow this procedure:
- if you are going to do several VM installations, then before you install, copy the directories you need (for example centos/5.6/os/x86_64/) from a CentOS mirror to /var/www/html on the host - start httpd on the host, check in the browser that you can access the CentOS files
- from a CentOS mirror, download any bootable iso (netinstall cd, or installer cd #1 do fine) to the host - mount the iso using "mount -o loop"
- do virt-install - for "location", use the mounted iso - do a "http" installation using your local http "repo" (refer to the host with its public ip number; 10.0.2.2 did not work for me)
- Jussi
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