Syntax for hard drive installs

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage at peaknet.net> wrote:
> This used to work, so I'm either very close or there's a bug...
>
> - Boot an old laptop (w/o USB boot capability) using disc1 CD.
> - Hold down Shift during boot to produce the ISOLINUX boot: prompt
> - Enter "linux askmethod" at boot: prompt
> - Choose "Hard drive"
> NOTE: The second hard drive (/dev/sdb1) contains a complete rsync'd
> mirror in /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/
> - Choose "/dev/sdb1" and enter "/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/"
> for the directory holding image.
>
> This fails. The path appends /images/install.img to the above path spec,
> making it: /fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386//images/install.img
>
> If it added "os" between the "//" it would work. The full path required
> is: /fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img
>
> IIRC in the RH300 courses we used the path to the iso/ directory. Now
> anaconda seems to want the path to a fully expanded os/ directory. If I
> used the path with "os" inserted, anaconda proceeds.
>
> A few screens later anaconda DOES appear to want to use an ISO image
> after all:
>
> Missing ISO 9660 image
> /!\ The installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it
>    on the hard drive.
>
>    Please copy this image to the drive and click Retry. Click
>    Exit to abort the installation.
>
> Is there a work-around, or must I wait for a respin?

I had a similar problem using the installing from the netinst.iso
image using livecd-iso-to-disk to copy it to a disk. It turns out that
if you specify the "repo=" command then it will only look in that
location for install files or something like that. For what you're
trying to do it might work if you specify the stage2= anaconda option
as well. In your case it would be something like (all on one line):

linux stage2=hd:/dev/sdb1:/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os
repo=hd:/dev/sdb1:/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/os/Packages

Hope this helps,
Richard