On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 16:23 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:37:15 -0400, James wrote:
> > >>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789
> > >>
> > >> Brian notes in that report - "Hit ok and a blank repe edit dialog
is
> > >> shown. Hit cancel and it then finds the correct repositories and
> > >> proceeds with the install."
> > >>
> > >> so you could try that.
> > >
> > > That is how I ended up with a broken "transparent" http install
from
> > > a stale mirror, getting the old non-working firstboot package. The
> > > "Installation Repo" will be missing due to the error and
clicking
> > > Cancel.
>
> I have completed several hard drive ISO (HDISO) installations of
> F-14-Beta without error. I'd like to understand more about the setup
> used to ensure our test case [1], and the steps you are following, are
> in sync.
>
> When you say hard drive install, you are referring to the process of
> copying the DVD ISO (or CD ISO) images to a hard disk partition, as
> detailed in the installation guide sections below?
>
>
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/ch0...
>
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-...
>
Yes.
On the test machine, partition sda5 contains an ext3 fs and several subdirs
to hold the ISO images for various distributions.
Ah, that could be part of the problem. Will need to dig a bit more
though.
Fedora 14 Beta RC3 i386
DVD ISO was put into /14 and a copy of the 'images' directory placed at
/14/images:
# mount /dev/sda5 mnt/1 -o ro
ll mnt/1/14
umount mnt/1
total 3569928
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 726 Sep 21 18:56 Fedora-14-Beta-i386-CHECKSUM
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 3616593920 Sep 21 21:45 Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 22:15 images
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 31546058 Sep 21 05:01 initrd.img
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 18:06 mnt
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3868064 Sep 21 05:01 vmlinuz
Thanks, can you also show me (or upload to the bugzilla) ...
# mount/dev/sda5 /media
# find /media -type f
Files vmlinuz and initrd.img are copied from the 'isolinux'
dir and
are booted with GRUB in MBR.
Great, that's a much faster way to boot the installer. I've not
recently used the isolinux/initrd.img, I typically use
images/pxeboot/initrd.img. Mental note for the future, we may need a
test to ensure these files are the *same* (or similar enough). They
aren't at the moment, but only because the .buildstamp in each
initrd.img differs. I'm not sure why, would need to consult release
engineering.
Summary, using isolinux/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} shouldn't change the
outcome of this test.
After choosing hard-disk as installation
source, I point Anaconda at /dev/sda5 and path /14, and it happily
loads and starts the graphical installer.
This has worked fine with Fedora 13 (and various older dist releases).
I think the key variables here are the installer and the contents of the
partition /dev/sda5 used.
Thanks,
James