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 >