> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of m.roth at 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 at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 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.