Description of problem: Anaconda fails to install in text mode with the following error: Missing ISO 9660 image The installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it on the hard drive. Please copy this image to the drive and click Retry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Anaconda 11.4.0.82 How reproducible: Installation from local hard disk in text mode. initrd.img, vmlinuz, boot.iso and Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso dated 08/05/08 from ftp://ftp.stw-bonn.de./pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso Steps to Reproduce: 1. iso images on /dev/sda1 2. root partition on /dev/sda5 3. upgrade existing system OR install new system 4. error occurs after the GRUB installation Actual results: error message (see above) Expected results: network installation Additional info: The error shouldn't occur because the Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso has been found earlier and the containing partition is already mounted on /dev/isodir. Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso shouldn't require another image but proceed with a network installation. (By the way: The containing partition of the ISO image cannot be the destination for a system upgrade or the installation aborts earlier than the above error with the following error: "Mount failed: One or more of the file systems listed in the /etc/fstab on your Linux system cannot be mounted." This problem doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Fedora 9 Installation Guide) -- http://politics.wikia.com/index.php?title=Extending_human_legislation_to_artificial_intelligences http://education.wikia.com/wiki/User:Fasten/Pilingual_Primer http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mentoring_Handbook http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Assistant_teacher_program
What's on your /dev/sda1 partition? Just the netinst.iso, or the entire set of ISO images from the FTP site you gave?
I've tried both boot.iso and Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso and with and without a subdirectory. (as per "6.2. Installation from a Hard Drive" http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html) Apparently stage2.img from netinst.iso is already mounted with /dev/loop0 on /mnt/runtime.
In order to use the HDISO installation method, you need more than just the netinst.iso on your partition. That's a ~ 100 MB ISO image that contains both the boot stuff and anaconda's stage2 required to provide the graphical environment. It does not, however, contain any packages. You either need grab the DVD or CD images from your FTP site and put them on your hard drive partition, or choose a different installation method.