FC7 DVD.iso Hard Drive Install problem

The Guy · External Since: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 3

Hi,

I am attempting to upgrade to RH7 using a DVD.iso on my hard drive, and
can not figure out how to get the RH7 install to find the DVD.iso.

The iso is in the /iso directory on my IDE hard drive. When the iso is
mounted and a df is performed, I get the following:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
150485084 50010024 92707408 36% /
/dev/hda1 101086 29483 66384 31% /boot
/dev/shm 387500 0 387500 0% /dev/shm
/iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/iso

The install boots OK with the FC7 vmlinuz and initrd.img in the /boot
directory. When prompted for the location of the iso, if I hit F2 and
select hda, I get to the boot directory. I am stumped as to the correct
format required to point the upgrade process to the location of the FC7
iso. When the iso is mounted under /mnt/iso on my existing RH install, I
have full access to the contents of the DVD image.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tim

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Jan Gerrit Kootstra · External Since: Apr 08, 2004 Posts: 290

The Guy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to upgrade to RH7 using a DVD.iso on my hard drive, and
> can not figure out how to get the RH7 install to find the DVD.iso.
>
> The iso is in the /iso directory on my IDE hard drive. When the iso is
> mounted and a df is performed, I get the following:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 150485084 50010024 92707408 36% /
> /dev/hda1 101086 29483 66384 31% /boot
> /dev/shm 387500 0 387500 0% /dev/shm
> /iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
> 2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/iso
>
> The install boots OK with the FC7 vmlinuz and initrd.img in the /boot
> directory. When prompted for the location of the iso, if I hit F2 and
> select hda, I get to the boot directory. I am stumped as to the correct
> format required to point the upgrade process to the location of the FC7
> iso. When the iso is mounted under /mnt/iso on my existing RH install, I
> have full access to the contents of the DVD image.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Tim
>
Tim,

Probably anaconda (the installer) is not able to mount the DVD. Have you
tried to copy the DVD content to a harddisk directory.

Best regards,

Jan Gerrit Kootstra

The Guy · External Since: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 3

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:26:37 +0200, Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:

> The Guy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am attempting to upgrade to RH7 using a DVD.iso on my hard drive, and
>> can not figure out how to get the RH7 install to find the DVD.iso.
>>
>> The iso is in the /iso directory on my IDE hard drive. When the iso is
>> mounted and a df is performed, I get the following:
>>
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>> 150485084 50010024 92707408 36% /
>> /dev/hda1 101086 29483 66384 31% /boot
>> /dev/shm 387500 0 387500 0% /dev/shm
>> /iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
>> 2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/iso
>>
>> The install boots OK with the FC7 vmlinuz and initrd.img in the /boot
>> directory. When prompted for the location of the iso, if I hit F2 and
>> select hda, I get to the boot directory. I am stumped as to the correct
>> format required to point the upgrade process to the location of the FC7
>> iso. When the iso is mounted under /mnt/iso on my existing RH install, I
>> have full access to the contents of the DVD image.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Tim
>>
> Tim,
>
>
> Probably anaconda (the installer) is not able to mount the DVD. Have you
> tried to copy the DVD content to a harddisk directory.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra

Jan,

The error message I experience is basically that no iso is found on the
partition. I suspect that this is due to an OHI (Operator Headspace
Issue) rather than a mount failure. I am likely not providing the
installer with the correct syntax to find the iso.

If the iso was found and then not mounted, I would anticipate a failure
to mount type of error message.

Tim

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Markku Kolkka · External Since: May 04, 2004 Posts: 187

The Guy wrote:
> I am attempting to upgrade to RH7 using a DVD.iso on my hard drive,
> and can not figure out how to get the RH7 install to find the DVD.iso.
>
> The iso is in the /iso directory on my IDE hard drive. When the iso
> is mounted and a df is performed, I get the following:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 150485084 50010024 92707408 36% /

You can't do a hard disk install from a LVM volume:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-installing-fro...arddriv
The .iso file must be on a ext2, ext3 or vfat partition that doesn't get
overwritten during installation.

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The Guy · External Since: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 3

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:51:25 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote:

> The Guy wrote:
>> I am attempting to upgrade to RH7 using a DVD.iso on my hard drive,
>> and can not figure out how to get the RH7 install to find the DVD.iso.
>>
>> The iso is in the /iso directory on my IDE hard drive. When the iso
>> is mounted and a df is performed, I get the following:
>>
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>> 150485084 50010024 92707408 36% /
>
> You can't do a hard disk install from a LVM volume:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-installing-fro...arddriv
> The .iso file must be on a ext2, ext3 or vfat partition that doesn't get
> overwritten during installation.

Ah..That makes sense. Thank you!

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