Has anybody successfully installed CentOS-
I tried (several times) installing CentOS-5.6 from a hard disk,
and each time it failed after installing all the rpms,
with the warning "The installation has tried to mount image #2,
but cannot find it on the hard drive."
When I pressed the Debug button one time after the failure,
it seemed to say that it was looking for the file in /dev/sdb7//ext2/
(/dev/sdb7 being the site of the DVD ISO).
But I'm not sure what "image #2" is? Or where it should be put?
Incidentally, I started by copying isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img
to the the directory CentOS-5.6 in the /boot parition
of a working linux (Fedora) system, and adding the stanza
----------------------------
title CentOS-5.6
root (hd0,1)
kernel /CentOS-5.6/vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sdb5:/
initrd /CentOS-5.6/initrd.img
----------------------------
The repo option was ignored, and I was asked if I wanted to install by FTP,
from Hard Disk, etc.
In the end I installed by http from my web-server, after
mount -o loop CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso /var/www/html/
on the server .
This worked faultlessly, and seems to be by far the easiest way
to install CentOS or Fedora if a local web-server is available.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> Has anybody successfully installed CentOS- > > I tried (several times) installing CentOS-5.6 from a hard disk, > and each time it failed after installing all the rpms, > with the warning "The installation has tried to mount image #2, > but cannot find it on the hard drive." > > When I pressed the Debug button one time after the failure, > it seemed to say that it was looking for the file in /dev/sdb7//ext2/ > (/dev/sdb7 being the site of the DVD ISO). > > But I'm not sure what "image #2" is? Or where it should be put? > > Incidentally, I started by copying isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img > to the the directory CentOS-5.6 in the /boot parition > of a working linux (Fedora) system, and adding the stanza > ---------------------------- > title CentOS-5.6 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /CentOS-5.6/vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sdb5:/ > initrd /CentOS-5.6/initrd.img > ---------------------------- > The repo option was ignored, and I was asked if I wanted to install by FTP, > from Hard Disk, etc. > > In the end I installed by http from my web-server, after > mount -o loop CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso /var/www/html/ > on the server . > This worked faultlessly, and seems to be by far the easiest way > to install CentOS or Fedora if a local web-server is available.Strange, I install it from the DVD.iso to VMWare images a couple times a month, haven't seen that issue. Once a new release gets approved for production, I copy the contents of the DVD.iso to our PXE Boot server, and install production machines from there. (FWIW, I have not installed in onto real hardware, from a real DVD, in a couple years now..) Are you sure your DVD matches the checksums? -- Don Krause Head Systems Geek, Waver of Deceased Chickens. Optivus Proton Therapy, Inc. P.O. Box 608 Loma Linda, California 92354 909.799.8327 Tel 909.799.8366 Fax dkrause at optivus.com www.optivus.com "This message represents the official view of the voices in my head." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4657 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110606/b85e4386/attachment-0003.p7s>
Don Krause wrote:>> I tried (several times) installing CentOS-5.6 from a hard disk, >> and each time it failed after installing all the rpms, >> with the warning "The installation has tried to mount image #2, >> but cannot find it on the hard drive."> Strange, I install it from the DVD.iso to VMWare images a couple times a > month, haven't seen that issue. > > Once a new release gets approved for production, I copy the contents of > the DVD.iso to our PXE Boot server, and install production machines from > there. > > (FWIW, I have not installed in onto real hardware, from a real DVD, in a > couple years now..) > > Are you sure your DVD matches the checksums?Yes: md5sum -c md5sum.txt.asc CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso: OK As I said, I installed CentOS-5.6 by http without problem. I've also installed it by netinstall and on a USB stick. But I haven't been able to install it from the hard disk, as I said. I'm pretty sure it is a bug in the installer program. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On 7.6.2011 1.19, Timothy Murphy wrote:> But I'm not sure what "image #2" is? Or where it should be put? >images/stage2.img ?? -Jussi
On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:59:52 AM Les Mikesell wrote:> On 6/7/2011 10:18 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > The modem is running fine, but my speed has not been improved threefold, > > as promised. > > In fact the speed is identical to the previous modem, as far as I can tell. > > Do you know what kind of change this was supposed to be?It might be a firmware update, or a download accelerator (which requires ISP cache support) installer. Something like NetZero, that uses special compression between the cache provider and the consumer that makes things seem to load faster. In which case you have to have Windows to run the client side of the compressed cache stream. This also interacts with the browser cache, and actually resizes typically too-large images down, something like what a PDF creator would do for embedded images to go to the actual PDF dpi setting.
On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 01:04:11 PM Timothy Murphy wrote:> who told me I had been chosen as a recipient of their new "Ultimate" system, > which would increase my speed from 5Mb/s to 14Mb/s, > at no extra cost!The speed increase is possible, for sure, as long as you're close enough to the DSLAM. We have an 11Mb/s DSL option here, but it does require improved hardware (ADSL2+). The modem wants a password for management; you'll need to google for the default modem password for that particular model to be able to start management without the CD. Using the modem manufacturer's CD allows an easy setup for Windows, typically, and walks you through the install, but it's very rarely actually required, unless it does have a firmware update on it.