genhdlist problems under RHEL3

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Martin Robb wrote:

>"Error: An error occurred unmounting the CD.  Please make sure you're
>not accessing /mnt/source from the shell on tty2 and then click OK to
>retry."
>When I switch to tty2 I find that /mnt/source does not exist as a
>directory and nothing is mounted there.  I can create the directory and
>mount /dev/hda as /mnt/source, but the install continues to give errors.

What is mounted, and can you unmount it by hand?

>The difficulty appears to be introduced by genhdlist.  If I comment that
>out and leave the RHEL3 hdlist file, the resulting CD is useable as a
>first install CD, though the other RHEL disks are necessary since hdlist
>thinks some of the RPMs are on them.  The genhdlist call isn't giving me
>any errors and the same logic is working under FC2.

How are you calling genhdlist? IIRC there are special options to
indicate multiple CDs (--withnumbers??).


Cheers,
Phil