Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 37372
installer looks for CD images during upgrade from hard disk rpms
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) When attempting upgrade to 7.1 from 7.0 as per online instructions (http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html) using rpm files saved to the hard disk the installer program looks for CD (iso9660) images despite having selected the install from hard disk option in previous screen. When the path and drive for the rpms is supplied a window appears saying "Device /dev/hda5 does not appear to contain RedHat CDROM images". This is, of course, correct, but it shouldn't be looking for CD images. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. follow instructions under http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html to create /dosd/RedHat /dosd/RedHat/base /dosd/RedHat/RPMS directories 2. use ftp to get files from ftp.esat.net (/.1/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat) 3. from same source get /.1/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/images/boot.img 4. use dd to make installer disk and, with installer disk in drive, reboot 5. select language = english, keyboard = uk, install from CD or hard disk = hard disk 6. In "select partition" window give /dev/hda5 and RedHat as input Actual Results: "Select Partition" Window appears with text... "What partition and directory on that partition hold the CD (iso9660) images for RedHat Linux?" This shouldn't appear as CD images are not required but when the location of the install directory (/dosd/RedHat) is given another window appears with... "Device /dev/hda5 does not appear to contain RedHat CDROM images" Expected Results: A similar window to the Select Partition window should ask where the install directory is and then installation (upgrade) should proceed as normal.
The information on the web site is incorrect. It used to be, but it's not anymore. We have changed hard drive installs to use ISO images. Take a look at bug #18019 for more info on the problems people had doing the old style hard drive install. I will notify the correct people about changing the documentation on the web site. Thanks for your report.