On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
I just attempted my standard CD/DVD free install technique
with the x86_64 fedora 10 alpha DVD iso image, and I can't
seem to get it to work.
I mount the iso image and copy isolinux/vmlinux and initrd.img
to my main /boot partition and make a grub entry to boot them.
Hooray - this is (basically) how I test this stuff too.
I then boot that entry to get the installer going, and my first
problem is an interminable wait as it says it is looking for
installation media on /dev/sr0. It finally gives up, and let's
me pick local hard disk install as an installation technique.
That's a known bug:
Bug 456327 - Anaconda loader can't figure out optical drive status
That then asks for the partition and directory, I pick the
partition from the list and type the directory name in the
text field, but after going through all this 4 or 5 times
and verifying the directory names, it never works.
It always tells me it can't find any iso images in the location
I specified.
I tested this for F10Alpha. It works, but it's a tiny bit tricky.
First - what's in that directory? You need to have *either*:
1) All the CD images, or
2) Just the DVD image.
If you have *both*, it'll fail.
For example, I keep those things on an external hard drive, like so:
/F10a/iso/ <--the F10Alpha iso dir from my local fedora mirror
/F10a/cd/ <--contains symlinks to the CD images in ../iso
/F10a/dvd/ <--contains a symlink to the DVD image in ../iso
Given that, you should be able to install from /F10a/cd
or /F10a/dvd. /F10a/iso *won't work*.
One further note - don't try to edit the InstallMedia repo once you get
into anaconda stage2. It won't work right.
Hope that helps!
-w