using an OS tree to do remote install fails

[dwoody5654]

On 12/15/2015 06:13 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/15/2015 02:22 PM, dwoody5654 wrote:
>> On 12/15/2015 04:20 PM, cs wrote:
>>> On 12/15/2015 03:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>> On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote:
>>>>> I have been using the following with no problems:
>>>>> url --url
>>>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/
>>>>>
>>>>> However, One computer I need to upgrade is in another city and in an
>>>>> area that has power outages on occasion but It has battery backup.
>>>>> During a netinstall, if the power goes out while downloading the
>>>>> packages -- that  would require me to go to the location. So I am
>>>>> trying
>>>>> to use a local OS tree for the install. This will reduce the risk
>>>>> from
>>>>> power outage.
>>>>>
>>>>> The documentation says the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> |harddrive|
>>>>>     Install from a tree or full installation ISO image on a local
>>>>> hard
>>>>>     drive. The tree or ISO image must be on a file system which is
>>>>>     mountable in the installation environment. Supported file systems
>>>>>     are |ext2|, |ext3|, |ext4|, |vfat|, or |xfs|.
>>>>>
>>>>>     |install| |harddrive --partition= | --biospart= [--dir=]|
>>>>>
>>>>>     |--partition=|
>>>>>         Partition to install from (such as |sdb2|).
>>>>>     |--biospart=|
>>>>>         BIOS partition to install from (such as |82p2|).
>>>>>     |--dir=|
>>>>>         Directory containing the installation tree or ISO image.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I only have one drive in the computer: /dev/sda.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I use:
>>>>>
>>>>> |harddrive --partition=/dev/sda2 --dir=/path/os|
>>>>>
>>>>> The target mount points are:
>>>>> sda1 is mounted as /
>>>>> sda2 is mounted as /home
>>>>>
>>>>> The errors are that the drive is not found for install and os tree
>>>>> also
>>>>> fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also tried:
>>>>>
>>>>> |harddrive --partition=sda2 --dir=/path/os|
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not found any other info.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there documentation elsewhere that has more details on the use
>>>>> of an
>>>>> OS tree?
>>>>
>>>> You choose either "--partition=" OR "--biospart=" OR "--dir=", not
>>>> multiples (the "|" character means "OR"). In your case, you'd do
>>>>
>>>>     install harddrive --dir=/path/to/isofile
>>> Using --dir only, I get an error that says the partition or the
>>> biospart must be specified.
>
> Ah. Ok, I suspect you need:
>
>     install harddrive --partition=sda2 --dir=path/to/tree
>
> don't include a leading "/" in the partition or dir parameters and
> don't include the pipe characters ("|"). The pipe characters are only
> there to show you the various options. In this case the permutations
> are:
>
>     install harddrive --partition=somepart
>     install harddrive --partition=somepart --dir=somepath
>     install harddrive --biospart=somepart
>     install harddrive --biospart=somepart --dir=somepath
>
I tried:
harddrive --partition=sda2
harddrive --partition=sda2 --dir=install/os
I moved the os directory the the proper location for each line above.

Install source fails in both cases. Clicking on install source, the 
screen that comes up shows the iso radio button selected. It can not be 
changed
And, as above, the install target shows no hard drives to install to.

If I only change the install source from harddrive to url:
url --url https://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/

Everything works and the install competes and reboots to a login screen.

If you can use an os tree from a remote location I would think it should 
also work from a local drive.

On the install source screen the only connection methods that are 
avaliable are:

http, https, ftp, nfs.

For the harddrive syntax to work I would think that the file option 
would be in the list and it is not.

Any thoughts or can you point me to where there might be additional doc?

David
> If you don't include "--dir=somepath", then it's expected that the
> tree or ISO file is in the root of the "--partition=" or
> "--biospart=" specified.
>
> I haven't written a kickstart file in a long, LONG time, so I'm a bit
> rusty.
>
>>> Also I am trying to use a os tree that I downloaded from
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/23/Everything/i386/os/
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>>
>>>> For example, if the ISO file is
>>>> /home/ISOFiles/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso, then I think you'd
>>>> use:
>>>>
>>>>     install harddrive
>>>> --dir=/home/ISOFiles/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso
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