Description of problem: As mentioned in bug #631796, since the addition of ntfs-3g driver to Fedora it was possible to install Fedora when its DVD iso is in an NTFS partition. However, since Fedora 14, this is no longer possible and the installer stops after mounting the NTFS partition. Apparently (according to bug #651534), the reason is that mount.ntfs-3g does not terminate while the partition is mounted and Anaconda waits for the mount command to be finished. It seems that it is not hard to solve this problem. Moreover, NTFS file systems are becoming more and more common specially with bigger storage devices, and supporting NTFS as an install source is a very useful feature. Please consider making it possible again. Also, it seems that the main problem that this file system were not supported from the beginning was the lack of NTFS file system support which is no longer the case. Thanks
It'd be worth trying again to see if this is working. We've got a totally new UI now, as well as new dracut stuff to find the installation source. I don't remember explicitly allowing ntfs, but I don't remember explicitly disallowing it either.
No, it doesn't. While F18's installer image can mount ntfs partitions (unlike recent releases which didn't have ntfs support at all), the NTFS partitions doesn't appear in the list of partitions which can be selected in the installation source selection UI.
If you point the url to your ntfs partition and iso directly does the install work? Ignoring whether or not it can be selected in the UI.
No. It prints an error while trying to mount the partition with an error message like this: Unknown filesystem 'ntfs'
blivet marks NTFS as unmountable, which is the only thing keeping NTFS partitions from showing up as hdiso sources. Maybe it's time to change that.
If the ntfs mount command actually returns, sure. If not, no. I'm not writing _any_ code to accommodate insane behavior in ntfs-specific mount program. Someone else is going to have to do the legwork to see if the ntfs mount is still acting crazy.