Install test3 from Hard Drive

[Eric Brunson]

Is there a way to coerce the test3 installer to read its ISO images from 
a filesystem on an LVM VG?

[David Timms]

Eric Brunson wrote:
> Is there a way to coerce the test3 installer to read its ISO images from 
> a filesystem on an LVM VG?

I tried this about a month ago, but couldn't find out what would be 
needed. I understand though that the 80M rescue cd contains a much wider 
range of device and logical drivers than the boot.iso, and it may just 
be a matter of passing the correct value in the boot: prompt or in the 
hard disk method ?

I resorted to making some /home/install space on an ext3 drive so that 
the isos would be available; I have also got around it by mounting the 
iso's on another machine and making them available over ftp. (for dvd 
mount on eg disc, while for CD mkdirs of disc1, d2, d3, d4 etc and give 
the disc1 folder as the image location.

DaveT.

[Eric Brunson]

David Timms wrote:
> Eric Brunson wrote:
> > Is there a way to coerce the test3 installer to read its ISO images 
> > from a filesystem on an LVM VG?
>
> I tried this about a month ago, but couldn't find out what would be 
> needed. I understand though that the 80M rescue cd contains a much 
> wider range of device and logical drivers than the boot.iso, and it 
> may just be a matter of passing the correct value in the boot: prompt 
> or in the hard disk method ?

I tried the rescue disk.  It too appears to have the problem that the 
initial system it boots into can't read LVM, not until you choose the go 
into rescue mode does it seem to activate the lvm and vgscan.
> I resorted to making some /home/install space on an ext3 drive so that 
> the isos would be available; I have also got around it by mounting the 
> iso's on another machine and making them available over ftp. (for dvd 
> mount on eg disc, while for CD mkdirs of disc1, d2, d3, d4 etc and 
> give the disc1 folder as the image location.

I guess FTP is my next best hope to avoid burning the CDs.  With the 
default layout of Fedora being 100M ext3 and everything else LVM is 
seems pretty obvious that the installer should need to be able to read 
LVM.  I may file a feature request.
> DaveT.

[Eric Brunson]

Eric Brunson wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
> > Eric Brunson wrote:
> > > Is there a way to coerce the test3 installer to read its ISO images 
> > > from a filesystem on an LVM VG?
> >
> > I tried this about a month ago, but couldn't find out what would be 
> > needed. I understand though that the 80M rescue cd contains a much 
> > wider range of device and logical drivers than the boot.iso, and it 
> > may just be a matter of passing the correct value in the boot: prompt 
> > or in the hard disk method ?
>
> I tried the rescue disk.  It too appears to have the problem that the 
> initial system it boots into can't read LVM, not until you choose the 
> go into rescue mode does it seem to activate the lvm and vgscan.
> > I resorted to making some /home/install space on an ext3 drive so 
> > that the isos would be available; I have also got around it by 
> > mounting the iso's on another machine and making them available over 
> > ftp. (for dvd mount on eg disc, while for CD mkdirs of disc1, d2, d3, 
> > d4 etc and give the disc1 folder as the image location.
>
> I guess FTP is my next best hope to avoid burning the CDs.  With the 
> default layout of Fedora being 100M ext3 and everything else LVM is 
> seems pretty obvious that the installer should need to be able to read 
> LVM.  I may file a feature request.

I have filed a request for enhancement to enable anaconda to read 
logical volumes.