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Argh.  I've been unable to get started with the 7.2 install.  According to
the RedHat docs, I should be able to do a hard drive install by putting the
ISOs on the machine and pointing to it.  Whenever I try this, it claims that
the directory specified does not contain disk images.  I simply placed the
enigma*.iso files into the directory.  Is there more I need to do?
Additionally, I tried burning the images to CD, but it did not recognize the
CDs and valid install media.  I haven't changed my method for burning them
over any of the other versions that I'd installed.  Is there something
unique about 7.2?
I'm frustrated and stumped by this.  Any help would be great,
Mark

Quote:> According to
> the RedHat docs, I should be able to do a hard drive install by putting the
> ISOs on the machine and pointing to it.  Whenever I try this, it claims that
> the directory specified does not contain disk images.

The "disk images" it's referring to here are not the ISOs, but rather
the floppy images (boot.img, pcmcia.img, etc) in the images/ directory
on the CD. If you simply copy the entire CD contents to a directory on
the disk and point to the images/ subdirectory within that, it should
work AFAIK.

Quote:> Additionally, I tried burning the images to CD, but it did not recognize the
> CDs and valid install media.  I haven't changed my method for burning them
> over any of the other versions that I'd installed.  Is there something
> unique about 7.2?

Unsure. I tried burning some 7.2 ISOs a few weeks ago, and AFAIK they
burned correctly, but the install process seemed to think the CD was
invalid. On the other hand I burned another set to different CDs several
weeks prior to that, and the install (well, upgrade) went fine. Weird...

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Quote:> > According to
> > the RedHat docs, I should be able to do a hard drive install by putting
the
> > ISOs on the machine and pointing to it.  Whenever I try this, it claims
that
> > the directory specified does not contain disk images.

> The "disk images" it's referring to here are not the ISOs, but rather
> the floppy images (boot.img, pcmcia.img, etc) in the images/ directory
> on the CD. If you simply copy the entire CD contents to a directory on
> the disk and point to the images/ subdirectory within that, it should
> work AFAIK.

I tried both methods, pointing to the ISOs, and also pointing to an expanded
version of it.  I never could get this to work.  It continually complained
that the directory didn't exist (ie. /tmp/hdimage//mnt/ISO/).

Quote:> > Additionally, I tried burning the images to CD, but it did not recognize
the
> > CDs and valid install media.  I haven't changed my method for burning
them
> > over any of the other versions that I'd installed.  Is there something
> > unique about 7.2?

> Unsure. I tried burning some 7.2 ISOs a few weeks ago, and AFAIK they
> burned correctly, but the install process seemed to think the CD was
> invalid. On the other hand I burned another set to different CDs several
> weeks prior to that, and the install (well, upgrade) went fine. Weird...

I just tried to reburn the CDs, and this time it worked.  Odd.  I searched
the 'net and it looks like I wasn't the only one having problems though.
Good to know.
Thanks for the response,
Mark

Yes, that is possible.  Although, according to RedHat, it is no longer
necessary to expand the ISO to a directory.  You simply have to place the
ISO into a directory, and point the install to it.  It would be nice if it
had worked.
For future reference, you can mount an ISO with the following command:

mount -r -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/ISO/blah.iso /mnt/ISO

When you change to the /mnt/ISO directory, you will see the contents of the
file as if it were a mounted CD.  It's a great time saver if you don't feel
like writing the ISO to a CD.

Thanks for the reply,
Mark

Quote:>   I seem to remember when I read that info that there was a utility
> you had to run to "mount" the image files as a volume.