Bug 507999
| Summary: | F11 Release Notes said boot.iso on CD,DVD, but it is not | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora Documentation | Reporter: | Tim Taiwanese Liim <tim.liim> | ||||
| Component: | release-notes | Assignee: | John J. McDonough <wb8rcr> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | devel | CC: | dcantrell, jks, stickster, wb8rcr | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| URL: | http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Installation_Notes-Updated_boot.iso.html | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-01-24 21:46:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Did you ever find a solution for this? Workaround:
Use the xxx-netinst.iso instead.
Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso
Fedora-11-x86_64-netinst.iso
They are at the same location as xxx-DVD.iso.
According to Release Notes, I should use "Fedora Documentation" instead of "Fedora" as Product. So I created Bug 513861 for the same issue, but with the proper Product. Ugh. 157 MB???!!! No wonder they didn't include it on the DVD image. What happened to make it bloat so much? This isn't going to fit on my 64 meg USB stick that I used to install Fedora 9 OK so that image was totally what I did NOT want. I didn't want to use anaconda to install over the internet, I wanted a minimal boot image so that I could install over NFS. When I booted the image the grub based installer didn't have online help like the old LILO one did, so I had to reboot just to get documentation on how to specify the install method. Ugh again. Created attachment 355210 [details]
Patch to replace troublesome text
I produced the attached changes but wasn't sure if this should go to master or some other branch.
*** Bug 513861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Re: Comment #5, Comment #2 A revised workaround: Use the xxx-netinst.iso instead. Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso Fedora-11-x86_64-netinst.iso They are at the same location as xxx-DVD.iso. When booting from said image, 1. Press <Tab> to access grub menu 2. add "askmethod" to kernel argument. Re: Comment #6, Comment #7 Hi, Paul, Ruediger, Thanks for fast action! Paul, In your revised text, you refer to "netinst.iso", but the actual files are Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso Fedora-11-x86_64-netinst.iso Is there a way to make it clear to clueless users (like me) the files are named xxx-netinst.iso? Does xxx-netinst.iso works with BIOS? I guess so, but it is not crystal clear from your text. Also, how about adding a few clue as how to install from NFS, as Joseph pointed out, that we need? > ... wasn't sure if this should go to master or some other branch. Without knowing your procedure, I would vote for going to F11 updates, just like other s/w updates. Also I vote for updating [1], which is visible to all. Thanks! [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Installation_Notes-Updated_boot.iso.html Paul, Ruediger, Any news? Thanks. Paul, Ruediger, Will this be fixed in F12? Thanks. Any news? This remains an issue in F12. Thanks. References to boot.iso and netinst.iso are not present in the most current versions of the Release Notes for Fedora 12 online: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html-single/ Instead, the documentation now refers to the Installation Guide and Installation Quick Start Guide, where complete information is available. Paul,
Thank you for your attention and response! Yes I agree this bug
is resolved properly.
For the record:
- the related paragraph about boot.iso is now in Installation Guide
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html-single/
- boot.iso in F11,F12 exists in mirror sites
Minimal CD boot media
fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/arch/os/images/boot.iso
- but boot.iso does NOT exist in
F11,F12 CD,DVD:/images/boot.iso
where it used to be in F10 and before.
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Description of problem: The release notes [1][2] states 2.4. Updated boot.iso The Fedora installation CDs and DVD provide you with an image file, boot.iso, ... But I could not find boot.iso on F11 CD/DVD. Please update the release notes, or please point out where I can find boot.iso. Thanks. [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Installation_Notes-Updated_boot.iso.html [2] file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/fedora-release-notes/en-US/fedora-release-notes-en-US.html#id2539766 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual results: n/a Expected results: n/a Additional info: n/a