Bug 70437
Summary: | Installation from ISO images on hard disk fails | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Need Real Name <rabbe.fogelholm> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | limbo | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-08-02 11:42:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-08-01 11:51:32 UTC
Did you allow the installer to media check your ISOs, and did it succeed? I have now tried to start the installation with "linux mediacheck". When I reach the screen where I specify the ISO images location, I tried specifying a non-existent directory on the correct partition. So far so good, the installer said "Failed to read directory ... No such file or directory". Next I tried to specify the wrong partition and an existing directory. This produced the message "Device /dev/hda2 does not appear to contain Red Hat CDROM images". Also reasonable. Finally I specified the right partition and the right directory. I then got the same crash as before. For comparison I tried "linux mediacheck" on a Red Hat 7.3 box where I still have the ISO images lying around. The installer complained "Failed to read directory /mnt/source" but apart from that things went well. I also tried to create the structure /mnt/source on /dev/hda6 and move the ISO images there, but that did not help. The complaint "Failed to read directory /mnt/source" is still issued, and after that there is the check (well ... there is no report of success though), and then the screen "Welcome to Red Hat Linux". After that a normal installation dialogue sequence follows. I have now checked the MD5 sums of the five ISO images; it turned out that no 4 is broken! It is less than 500 MB in size so there is no chance that it could be correct. I have now downloaded the 4th ISO image and checked that its MD5 is correct. And, good news, install from hard drive now works. So, it was all a mistake on my part. The "linux mediacheck" install option is a bit disappointing in that it does not have a sanity check that catched my problem. Here is an idea; since the boot.img installer is specific to one particular Red Hat release, why not let it know about the exact sizes of the corresponding ISO images? It could then easily detect and diagnose this kind of condition. A still more ambitious check could be done if the boot.img code knows the expected MD5 sums. However, it takes a while to compute the MD5s, so an impatient user might not want to have it (though it could be part of the "linux mediacheck" option perhaps?). |