iMediaLinux 5.0.1 does not support installation from USB CD??

Thu, 1970-01-01 00:00

sisirallc

Posts: 2
Joined: 2007-05-22

I stuck my purchased 5.0.1 CD in my USB DVD-RW drive and everything started to boot (nice splash screen, by the way)....then, prior to anything useful happening, the installation crashed with a message about not being able to find /usr/bin/perl. This, apparently, is being caused by the USB modules failing to load correctly. I'm getting some sort of kernel module error messages and the cdrom is not being mounted, properly. Is this a known issue? It appears, from an earlier post that something similar was happening with an earlier version of the MythTV installation. Could that be related. Isn't this a fairly common method of installation? Why not just compile the necessary stuff, for this sort of installation, into the kernel? Cheers, - Brendan ===== UPDATE: Ok, uname is returning 2.4.33 from April of last year? Is this correct for the 5.0.1 version of iMediaLinux?

Thu, 2007-05-24 13:09 5.0.1 and USB CDROM installation

pando

Posts: 36
Joined: 2006-12-04

Hi, We are aware of this issue, all proper modules are compiled in kernel, but this is not a problem of support, more a Install CD boot problem. CDROM is not properly mounted in /cdrom directory. We will fix this in our next release. Till then there is a solution to this problem:
When Welcome screen appears go to console 2 ( ALT+F2 ) and manually mount cdrom


[sh: ~]# mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom

Then go back to console 1 ( ALT+F1 ) and continue install
PS. On 5.0.1 InstallCD Kernel should be 2.6.20

Thu, 2007-05-24 17:50	3.0.0 CD sent by mistake.
sisirallc Posts: 2 Joined: 2007-05-22	Actually, I was able to try the "mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom" thing. The issue was that the 3.0.0 distribution was sent to me, by mistake. As you likely know, that version only supported installation from an IDE CDROM drive. Cheers, - Brendan login to post comments

Thu, 2007-05-31 07:05	Wrong CD shipped
stevens Posts: 7 Joined: 2007-05-29	Looks like I have also been shipped an earlier version then 5.0.1 :-( No wonder I spent half a day trying to work around the USB problems. Michael login to post comments

Mon, 2007-06-04 09:11	Excellent service
stevens Posts: 7 Joined: 2007-05-29	Quick update. I emailed iMedia customer-service when I realized I had been shipped the wrong CD version. By return of email they sent me a location to download version 5.0.1. Thanks for the prompt service. This helps a lot. login to post comments