On 10/31/2016 01:25 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote:
On 10/31/16 12:11, stan wrote:
> What is an install.img file? That is, what is its function? Is it
> possible that it is actually called initrd.img?
I've never seen a clear description of each of the files involved in a
PXE installation, but install.img is certainly one of them. It may be
the anaconda executable, but that's just a guess. It certainly is not
the initial ram disk (initrd).
You will find a copy in the current F24 directories on
fedoraproject.org, for example. But the copy seems to be release
specific. I need one for F20 and that doesn't seem to be online.
Looking at the Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso ISO image for F20, there is no
"install.img":
[root@prophead ~]# find /mnt -name "*.img"
/mnt/LiveOS/squashfs.img
/mnt/images/efiboot.img
/mnt/images/macboot.img
/mnt/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
/mnt/images/pxeboot/upgrade.img
/mnt/isolinux/initrd.img
/mnt/isolinux/upgrade.img
Note there are two files each in the pxeboot and isolinux directory
trees, initrd.img and upgrade.img. There is no install.img. There was a
major rehash of the way the installers worked at F22 or thereabouts, so
that might explain it. Checking the release notes should reveal that
sort of info, but I can't recall when the switch happened. I'm getting
old and suffer from CRS (can't remember s**t) syndrome now.
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