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I am attempting to install Oracle VM Server from USB. I get the loader/installer to run, but when it is ready to install the iso, it asks 'What type of media contains the packages to be installed?' I reply 'Hard Drive' then it takes me to a list of devices (/dev/sd*) which are not mapped to my USB as far as I can tell. It doesn't seem to be able to find the USB drive that it originally booted from. I don't see any way to configure or point to the USB drive. Any assistance is appreciated.
I created this bootable USB using YUMI-0.0.7.4.exe to boot from memory.
The host OS is what I am attempting to install from USB. Oracle VM Server is Oracle's version of VMWare. I have an ISO image that I downloaded from Oracle technet. I have attempted older known-working versions of Oracle VM Server, but get the same result.
I get the installer to run and select language and keyboard, but the 3rd screen asks for a media location of the packages to be installed. The list presented is:
Local CDROM
Hard Drive
NFS image
FTP
HTTP
I choose Hard Drive (as my USB is booted as a HDD) and am presented with a list of devices, /dev/sd* of which none contain my media. I don't know how or if the USB is mapped to a device so I don't know how it would be accessed by the installer. This may be a due to the fact that it just can't find the package location on the USB. Doing some more research on my end, but appreciate any assistance.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
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Did you try selecting Local CD ROM also? It may well not work but it's worth a try at least.
If not then you may need to get out of the installer and mount the USB drive somewhere then re-run the installer. I have never seen the OS you're trying to install though so I wouldn't know how to accomplish this.
Last edited by 273; 10-03-2012 at 02:36 PM.
Reason: Typo.
I believe the problem is related to isolinux. Still digging into it.
Starting in version 3.72, ISOLINUX supports a "hybrid mode" which can
be booted from either CD-ROM or from a device which BIOS considers a
hard disk or ZIP disk, e.g. a USB key or similar.
To enable this mode, the .iso image should be postprocessed with the
"isohybrid" script from the utils directory:
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