Bug 233221

Summary:	FTP/HTTP install documentation - directory paths
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jakub Suchy <jakub>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Ryan Lerch <rlerch>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	John Ha <jha>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	adstrong
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Description Jakub Suchy 2007-03-21 00:55:47 UTC

Description of problem:
I believe there is a bug or documentation problem for FTP installation method.
The documentation says:
1) Download ISOs
2) Mount them via loopback to disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4
3) Share them via ftp account ftp://redhat:redhat@someserver/
4) Start installation with "linux askmethod"
5) Follow to FTP installation
6) As FTP server, type someserver
7) As directory, type / (diskX is mounted in chrooted user root, right?)
8) Installation fails to find any data until you type /disk1 as a path

Comment 1 David Cantrell 2007-04-02 22:17:42 UTC

For the directory to the install media, you have to type the path to the first
loopback-mounted image.  Anaconda will then recognize your directory layout as a
series of loopback mounted images and it will progress through them.

Where is the documentation you are referring to?

Comment 2 Jakub Suchy 2007-04-02 22:52:22 UTC

https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-begininstall-ftp-x86.html

For example, if the FTP site contains the directory
/mirrors/redhat/arch/variant;/, enter /mirrors/redhat/arch/ (where arch is
replaced with the architecture type of your system, such as i386, ia64, ppc, or
s390x, and variant is the variant that you are installing, such as Client,
Server, Workstation, etc.). If everything was specified properly, a message box
appears indicating that files are being retrieved from the server.

Comment 3 David Cantrell 2007-04-03 15:09:26 UTC

You are correct, the tips given for the FTP and HTTP installation method are a
bit ambiguous when referring to the discX shortcut method.  They don't then tell
you what path to give to the installer.

Reassigning to the Documentation component for RHEL.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 4 Michael Hideo 2007-10-23 02:45:10 UTC

Removing automation notification

Comment 5 Don Domingo 2008-01-21 03:09:05 UTC

clarified in source for RHEL5.2:
https://engineering.redhat.com/docbot/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/s1-begininstall-ftp-x86.html

setting as MODIFIED.

Comment 6 Ryan Lerch 2008-07-23 05:59:50 UTC

verified:
https://engineering.redhat.com/docbot/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/s1-begininstall-ftp-x86.html