From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: Trying to install FC3T1, md5 checked on all isos. Burnt cd1 , placed the isos on /dev/hdc1 (fat 32 partition) , in a folder called Isos/Fedora/FC3test1/ . After booting with linux askmethod selinux=0 xfs jfs hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe , I got a failure message when I selected the right directory and device , saying that the iso files werent found. Switching to the other terminal, there was this message: <4> VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc1 <4> Unable to load NLS charset ascii <3> fat: IO charset ascii not found I decided to give another try and copied the isos to my home xfs partition (dont have any ext2/3 partitions here..). Again , same options and same error... This same fat partition has been used to install all the fedora stable and test releases since fedora core 1 on my computer , so I doubt that's an error with the disk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora core 3 test 1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. place isos on a fat filesystem 2. Try to do a hard disk install 3. Actual Results: Fails to mount the device and open the isos Expected Results: Should open the isos correctly
As a note to something related to vfat partions. I had failure with the install when trying to mount a vfat volume upon install. I first had a failure trying to upgrade an FC2 version to FC3T1. This halted the installer for problems related to a bad vfat partion. When I tried an install after reformatting the whole disk, creating a vfat partition with w98. I had trouble similar to what Pedro encountered. I know he was trying to install from the vfat partition, but it would not mount either. (such as /mnt/vfat)
This is fixed in rawhide. Caused by the charset modules for the default FAT charset being modular instead of built-in.