On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > > When I try to boot from the pendrive, it boots just fine, and the > installer > > starts OK. But then, it cannot find the cdrom. Thats OK, because there > > is no cdrom in the drive. But I want it to install from the 'netinst.iso' > image. > > But I can't find a way to make it do the install from the iso image. > > > > Can anyone tell me how to make the installer install from the iso image? > > Have you tried mounting the image from the console (in the installer) > and then pointing the installer to the local repository?
Yes. I tried that too, but somehow I could not loop mount, and the loop.ko module could not be found anywhere in /lib/modules. So, to workaround this problem, I made a directory in the USB pendrive (from my working Linux PC) and copied the full contents of the iso image into this directory. Then I tried booting again, but still the installer is trying to find a cdrom drive and failing. Now, you said "pointing the installer to the local repository". How exactly is this done? When the cdrom detection failed, at a console, I found a directory named '/cdrom' already created (empty). I linked this directory so that it pointed to the iso contents in my pendrive. Then I attempted to rerun the earlier step by selecting the option 'install from installer cdrom' (the wordings might be a bit off but this is the option just next to the 'detect installer cdrom' option). But I am still getting the same error. Is there any particular way to 'point the installer' to the installer cdrom contents? Regards, Santanu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
