Bug 463486 - F10 Hard Drive ISO install behavior has changed
Summary: F10 Hard Drive ISO install behavior has changed
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: install-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Nalley
QA Contact: Paul W. Frields
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: 465195 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-23 17:37 UTC by James Laska
Modified: 2013-09-02 06:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-11-23 18:12:58 UTC
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Description James Laska 2008-09-23 17:37:24 UTC
The method to perform a hard drive ISO install has changed somewhat for Fedora 10. 

In addition to copying the ISO images to a free partition on your system, you must also provide a install.img file.  The installation program will not automatically use the images/install.img file located inside the ISO image.  

The procedure to continue using a network-less hard drive ISO install is described in the "repo=hd" section of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options

Alternatively, users my choose to burn the images/boot.iso image and boot their system while specifying the command-line arguments: "repo=hd:<device>:<path_to_ISOs>

Comment 1 James Laska 2008-11-21 16:25:29 UTC
What I just did was ...

1) You must have a spare partition (not logical volume) of sufficient size to hold my ISO images.  For my test, it's mount point was '/iso'
2) Copy the Fedora-10-ppc-DVD.iso into /iso/
3) Extract the "install.img" file from the DVD into '/iso/images/install.img'

$ mount -o loop /iso/dvd/Fedora-10-ppc-DVD.iso /mnt
$ mkdir /iso/dvd/images
$ cp -a /mnt/images/install.img /iso/dvd/images/
$ umount /mnt

4) Initiate install (boot from network, boot off of DVD, boot off of boot.iso)

5) Choose a language and keyboard

6) Select "Hard drive"

                       +----+ Installation Method +----+
                       |                               |
                       | What type of media contains   |
                       | the installation image?       |
                       |                               |
                       |         Local CD/DVD          |
                       |         Hard drive            |
                       |         NFS directory         |
                       |         URL                   |
                       |                               |
                       |    +----+        +------+     |
                       |    | OK |        | Back |     |
                       |    +----+        +------+     |
                       |                               |
                       |                               |
                       +-------------------------------+

7) Select the partition and directory containing the DVD iso

         +-------------------+ Select Partition +--------------------+
         |                                                           |
         | What partition and directory on that partition holds      |
         | the installation image for Fedora?  If you don't see      |
         | the disk drive you're using listed here, press F2 to      |
         | configure additional devices.                             |
         |                                                           |
         |                         /dev/sda1                         |
         |                         /dev/sda2                         |
         |                         /dev/sda3                         |
         |                         /dev/sdb1                         |
         |                                                           |
         |   Directory holding image: /dvd________________________   |
         |                                                           |
         |            +----+                     +------+            |
         |            | OK |                     | Back |            |
         |            +----+                     +------+            |
         |                                                           |
         |                                                           |
         +-----------------------------------------------------------+

Comment 2 David Nalley 2008-11-23 18:11:53 UTC
*** Bug 465195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 David Nalley 2008-11-23 18:12:58 UTC
I made content changes including detailing how to extract install.img from isos. Pushed those up in commit 4787c12


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