F18-Beta installer - Aaaargh!

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 14:52 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > The good news first: F-18 Beta DVD ISO image can be booted from harddisk
> > again, so it seems I will be able to test that installation method this
> > time without having to research strange/new/complex entries for GRUB and
> > loading squashfs images from remote locations.
>  
> I may have been too optimistic. :-(
> The following issue I've revisited:
> 
> > The installer complains about the "installation source" (ISO) without
> > telling me what's wrong. There's a "Verify" button, which doesn't seem to
> > do anything.
> 
> There's a tiny empty area/button left of the Verify button. It's another
> button with no text assigned. One can click it to open a file dialog,
> point it at the DVD ISO image, the button then displays the path, one
> can even Verify the ISO image, but the installer crashes. And it's been
> reported before: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/879612
> 
> I guess it will not be possible to install from DVD ISO image on harddisk
> due to this issue in addition to the other problem I've described.

See 879142. It is possible if you simply ignore the 'error'. Don't go
into the spoke and try and change anything, just leave it alone. It'll
work.
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