[CentOS] hard disk install failure

Tue Jun 7 14:13:31 UTC 2011
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

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.

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