[CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

Wed Apr 16 15:58:42 UTC 2008
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:51:54 +0100:
> 
>> what did VC#3,4,5 haveto say about why it failed ?
> 
> I already provided this information by myself very early on in a reply to 
> John. 

oops, sorry - missed it. That email seems to have not made it to my 
mailbox :/ I just looked through the thread and cant find it.


> In the meantime I was able to install.

excellent!

> overlooked that it gave a cdrom as the installation source. There is no cd 
> rom and that error message about manually choosing a driver and presenting 
> all those storage drivers was misleading me to believe it was looking for 
> the RAID driver while it actually was looking for a driver that would help 
> it find the CD.

ouch. I've never seen that myself.

Is there really no clear information on the anaconda screen that 
indicates its looking for a SOURCE to install from rather than a TARGET 
to install to ?

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