Steve,

I will have to research this.  

-connie sieh
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

>     When I use a Hard Drive Installation Method, select partition
> /dev/sda9 from the list specified by the installation program, and specify
> SL304 as the "Directory holding images" (that's where the SL*.iso files
> are) the installation program complains "Device /dev/sda9 does not appear
> to contain Red Hat CDROM images".  I hope someone can help figure out
> what's wrong.  More details follow:
> 
>     When /dev/sda9 is mounted on /mnt/SL, a listing of /mnt/SL/SL304 shows
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 659838976 Feb 24 00:46 SL.304.021105.i386.disc1.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 672352256 Feb 24 05:23 SL.304.021105.i386.disc2.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593227776 Feb 24 09:27 SL.304.021105.i386.disc3.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500123648 Feb 24 12:54 SL.304.021105.i386.disc4.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       252 Feb 24 12:54 SL.304.021105.i386.md5sum
> 
>     The .iso files can be mounted with -o loop, and they do appear to be
> images of installation CDROMs.  `md5sum -c SL.304.021105.i386.md5sum`
> shows them all to be "OK".  I was able to burn CD's with them, the CD's
> passed the media check, and I used them to install SL3.0.4.  But I may
> want to install on a network of many computers without good communication
> to the outside world, and would prefer installing from CDROM images on
> disk rather than from CDROMs on each computer.
>     A probably irrelevant complication is that I tried disk installation
> without booting from a floppy by putting in grub.conf
> 
> title Install SL 304 (/ is /dev/sda11)
>     root (hd0,10)
>     kernel /tmp/304/vmlinuz
>     initrd /tmp/304/initrd.img
> 
> where vmlinuz and initrd.img come from the isolinux directory on
> SL.304.021105.i386.disc1.iso.  I think this atypical way of booting into
> installation is not the cause of the problem since using it does give
> the installation dialog up to where it failed to recognize the .iso
> images.  Furthermore, when I tried a network install of SL3.0.4 on a
> second computer with the same images on a third computer, and booted with
> a bootdisk.img floppy copied from the SL.304.021105.i386.disc1.iso, I
> eventually got "That directory does not seem to contain a Scientific Linux
> Installation tree".  Pointing to a set of RH9 .iso files in a neighboring
> directory on the same computer did seem to find an installation tree,
> though the installation failed with the valid complaint "The Scientific
> Linux Installation tree in that directory does not seem to match your boot
> media".  So it looks as if the SL*.iso files are not considered
> installation images by the installation program.
> 
> 
> Steven Yellin
>