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Bug 465195

Summary: IG needs to properly document HDD install.img use
Product: [Retired] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Paul W. Frields <stickster>
Component: install-guideAssignee: Paul W. Frields <stickster>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Paul W. Frields <stickster>
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Description Paul W. Frields 2008-10-02 02:55:03 UTC
Make sure the F10 IG properly documents how to do a hard disk installation.  This is bound to catch THOUSANDS of users who are used to doing the lazy thing (and good for them!) -- downloading the ISO and simply pointing to it.  I'm not sure what we gained by this change, but let's at least get it documented.

From https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-October/msg00035.html:

'''
> It seems like it's working, but then when I tell it to do a hard drive
> install and where the install image directory is, it says it can't find it.
> I hit Alt-F[2-7] and found a message implying it was looking for a
> file named install.img in the install image directory.  But I'm sure
> I've never put a file named install.img in that directory.  Do I need
> to rename Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to install.img?  With older
> releases, hard drive installs automagically found the iso file.

>From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464836:

No, it doesn't need to be renamed.  What you need to do is either:

(1) Grab the install.img from within the ISO image or from the download
site, and place it into an images/ directory at the same level as your
ISO images; or

(2) Boot from the boot.iso.

This is a change from F9, but it is described in the anaconda
documentation at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options

(I've also just updated that documentation to change stage2.img ->
install.img, which was a fairly recent change in anaconda).
'''

Comment 1 David Nalley 2008-11-23 18:11:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463486 ***