Hard drive install only uses .iso files and not mirrored repo?!

[Todd Denniston]

Bruno Wolff III wrote, On 03/03/2008 10:45 PM:
> I have only one x86_64 box available to test installs with. I tried using
> buildinstall to see if I got a later version of anaconda that way (once
> upon a time I believe that anaconda on the images was a day behind). My
> understanding is that I need to run that on the same architecure (at least
> without learning to use mock) so I used one disk for the simple install
> (that doesn't trigger the mkinitrd problem with raid/luks) and was going to
> to use the other for a practice install.
> Unfortunately when I tried using the new netinst.iso none of the install
> options applied. The hard drive install expected the images wrapped up
> in an iso file instead of being available more directly and the local CD/DVD
> option wouldn't let me do something similar for a hard drive (I figured that
> wasn't likely to work) because I didn't get to specify a device. The URL
> and NFS options won't work either as the file isn't available over the
> network.
> So I would either need to make an iso image out of the repo or copy the
> repo (actually just the images, as I have the repo locally on another machine
> already) and do a network install.
> It's probably rare that people have the images on the same machine they
> are installing to, but it might be nice to provide someway to use a repo
> mirror on a hard drive at some future point. (Not now, I have a lot of other
> stuff work first relating to installs.) The set of people I would expect this
> to help are ones mirroring rawhide on their current stable version of Fedora,
> doing test installs of rawhide on to the same box in other partitions.
> 

Would you like to add to/correct this?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976

Thanks for reminding me I needed to do that, and yes I did search bugzilla first.

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Todd Denniston
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