problem installing fedora core 4 from USB DVD

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu May 25 18:00:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 09:06 +0200, Sánchez Pérez, Gustavo wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>         I'm using a laptot (Acer aspire 1355LM), which has an internal
> DVD (pionner). This DVD is broken so I have to do the installation
> from an external USB NEC DVD-RW.
> 
>         The installation process starts without problems from that, I
> can see the boot screen, press intro and kernel boots up. I can see a
> text message "Loading ohci1394 driver", after that I have to select a
> language, after that I select keyboard type and here comes the
> problem, installation request me to select "the installation method",
> obviously I select CD/DVD  and installation program says "CD not
> found". 
> 
>         
>         It is trying to find the DVD into the broken pionner DVD (a
> message "trying to mount /dev/hdc" can be seen in one of the messages
> screens ALT+F3) and I don`t know how to make it to look for DVD in
> external  NEC DVD.
> 
>         I've tried to boot in expert mode,  
>                 boot: expert
> 
>         but I couldn`t find a command shell anywhere. I've also tried
> to load usbcore and/or usb_storage at booting time with module=usbcore
> module=usb_storage but it didn't work.

The shell can be found if you press "ALT-F3" during the install process.

The installer has problems finding the disk if it wasn't written EXACTLY
as the .iso image says (must have exactly the same layout, filenames,
IDs, ISO9660 header info, etc.)  How did you burn it?

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