How to install an OS with 2 installation iso file

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Am 2020-05-05 16:14, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:

Ahoi!

> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 03:31:38PM +0530, Harsh chopra wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I was trying to install Centos 2.1 on the virtual machine,
> 
> Ambitious!  Note that older operating systems often don't work in
> qemu, not for any particular reason but just because they don't get
> much attention and things regress, drivers in particular.  Or the
> drivers such as IDE don't emulate corners which are needed by the old
> OS.  For example I tried running some really ancient Linux versions in
> qemu a while back with no success at all.
> 
> Having said that I have run RHEL 3 recently on qemu and that's fairly
> similar to 2.1.
> 
>> the installation
>> was complete 50% but then it asked to insert the second installation 
>> iso
>> file.
>> i.e. "Please insert disc 2 in cdrom"
>> I tried to change the XML file and insert the line
>> <source file = "/home/..."/>
>> under device name  but nothing helped.
> 
> When you say you "tried to change the XML file" - how did you do that?
> You should use ‘virsh edit <guest>’ only, and not attempt to edit any
> XML file directly.  Or of course you can use virt-manager as the other
> reply suggested - it essentially does the same thing as virsh edit.
> 
>> Should I extract the iso file in a folder and then give it's path in 
>> source
>> file or am I missing something?
> 
> You might also try to install using --location, assuming that RHEL 2.1
> supported that (I don't recall, but I'm pretty sure RHEL 3 did).
> 
> Rich.

i do this with a simple trick. i did this with centos 5 last weeks
i attached 12 cdroms to VM and install runs thru without any "please 
insert disc #<nr>"
after that, i removed the cdrom drives.
voila

kind regards

marko