Bug 89917 - Ambiguity about path to ISO images
Summary: Ambiguity about path to ISO images
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rhl-ig-x86
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sandra Moore
QA Contact: Sandra Moore
URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/li...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-29 18:55 UTC by Matthew Leingang
Modified: 2014-08-04 22:23 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-05-19 19:25:11 UTC
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Description Matthew Leingang 2003-04-29 18:55:57 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
The install guide reads:

"Enter the device name of the partition containing the Red Hat ISO images. There
is also a field labeled Directory holding images. If the ISO images are not in
the root (top-level) directory of that partition, enter the full path to the ISO
images (for example, if the ISO images are in /test/new, you would enter
/test/new)."

I had ISO images in /home/leingang, where /home was the mount point of
/dev/hda4.  At the dialog in question, I entered /home/leingang as the path and
got a message like "/tmp/hdimage//home/leingang: no such file or directory."  I
finally figured it out to just enter "leingang" as the directory.  

The confusion is that /home is a figment of the already-installed file system
and is not present when mounting the partition temporarily to read the
installation images.  But "leingang" doesn't look like a "full path," as the
installation guide suggests.  The required text in this imput is the path to the
ISO images _relative_ to the root of the partition (or its mount point if you
are thinking inside the filesystem).

A short fix would be to remove the word "full."  A better example would be "if
the partition on which the images reside is normally mounted at /test, and the
ISO images are in /test/new, you would enter 'new'."

A longer fix would explain filesystems and mount points.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhl-ig-x86(EN)-9-HTML-RHI (2003-01-16T18:24-0400)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begininstall-hd.html
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Sandra Moore 2003-05-19 19:25:11 UTC
I've included examples of both a root top-level directory access point and a
non-root, non-top-level directory access point. I hope this will explain it
better so that users will have proper examples to follow. Changes will be
reflected in the next release. Thanks so much for the feedback.


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