From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 Description of problem: I am unable to install from either an extended vfat partition (hda10) or an ext3 partition (hda12). The installer states that it cannot find the CD images. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 1.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using boot.iso extracted from CD 1, I made a boot CD. 2. Rebooted the system to boot from the boot CD. 3. Selected Hard Drive as the install method. 4. Selected /dev/hda10 as the partition holding the CD images. Actual Results: Error message: "Device /dev/hda10 does not appear to contain Red Hat CDROM images". Expected Results: Install should proceed as normal. Additional info: I was also unable to install Fedora Test 3. Fedora Test 1 & 2 installed normally via this method.
Silly question -- did you specify the right partition and directory that holds the ISO images? Which images did you place there? Also, what messages are there on tty3?
Yes I did. I placed the 3 yarrow CD isos (md5sum came up correctly) in a directory called fedora. I also tried moving them to the top-level directory, that did not work. Here is what tty3 says: * partition /dev/hda10 selected * mounting device hda10 for hard drive install * mntloop loop7 on /tmp/loopimage as /tmp/hdimage//boot.iso fd is 13 * umounting loopback /tmp/loopimage loop7 * mntloop loop7 on /tmp/loopimage as /tmp/hdimage//yarrow-i386-disc3.iso fd is 13 * umounting loopback /tmp/loopimage loop7 * mntloop loop7 on /tmp/loopimage as /tmp/hdimage//yarrow-i386-disc1.iso fd is 13 * umounting loopback /tmp/loopimage loop7 * mntloop loop7 on /tmp/loopimage as /tmp/hdimage//yarrow-i386-disc2.iso fd is 13 * umounting loopback /tmp/loopimage loop7
Hmmm, from this it looks almost like the stamp for the ISOs didn't match what was in your boot disc. Can you make sure that you booted from the right CD (since I make that mistake all the time :)
In case it's relevant - I had somewhat similar symptoms when trying to install over HTTP/FTP: after retrieving stage2.img, I got a box saying "The Fedora Core installation tree in that directory does not seem to match your boot media". But I had made the boot disks from the images/ subdirectory in that installation tree! Downloading the ISO images (from the same place) and then writing them to CDs and installing from them worked fine.
Hi! I too seem to be getting the same error message of hard disk not holding the cd images while trying the installation fom my hard drive. i have dumped all the cd files to my hard drive but it dosent seem to work. also when i try to copy the image files to a floppy disk it gets corrupted. however if i install using the cd i do not face any such problems. how do i tackel this problem. URGENT HELP needed! Thx.
try installing a CD drive :)
This should be fixed in our current code.