F8 rc3 and linux askmethod install failure

[marko]

I have a Amd 64 machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. So I
usually just put the DVD iso file on a external usb hard drive
and burn the boot.iso to a CD-R. So today I got the F8 rc3
via bittorrent and burned the rescuecd that came with it
on to the CD-R to use the askmethod to install
the DVD iso off the usb drive.

the files:

3876610048 2007-11-03 02:55 Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso
107018240 2007-11-03 02:54 Fedora-8-x86_64-rescuecd.iso

The problem is I get to where I tell it to use the
hard disk as the source, then it offers the list of devices :
sda (internal SATA disk)
sdb (the usb disk)

I then usually use F2 so I can actually see the directories
and files. I used the F2 mode to select the F8rc3 DVD iso file
and it always dies with:

"install exited abnormally [ 1/1 ]
sending termination signals

I did the sha1sum and the image tested ok. The USB drive
has ext3 as the filesystem. I've used this exact install method
before and it worked fine.
Does this method have a problem if the iso file is several directories deep?
I put the file in:

isos/F8rc3/Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

maybe it has to be in the root of the drive?

UPDATE - I've decided to just loopback mount the DVD iso
from another machine on the network and do the
install via the askmethod ftp mode. This seems to be working well.


Mark

[Thetargos]

I was about to suggest NFS/http/ftp installation rather than mounting the loopback. I've not had problems with such methods.

[marko]

I did do an ftp installation, but to create the tree of files on the server I
just put the iso file on there and loopback mounted the iso so it looked
like a directory tree so the remote machine could get to them.
It's possible there might be a performance hit in doing that instead
of actually extracting the files? (I could have done the loopback and
then copied the files to a different tree thus making the files in
the real filesystem on the server).

Mark

[Thetargos]

The overhead is negligible, network conditions are much more critical.

[brr872002]

I have a Amd 64 machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. So I
usually just put the DVD iso file on a external usb hard drive
and burn the boot.iso to a CD-R. So today I got the F8 rc3
via bittorrent and burned the rescuecd that came with it
on to the CD-R to use the askmethod to install
the DVD iso off the usb drive.

the files:

3876610048 2007-11-03 02:55 Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso
107018240 2007-11-03 02:54 Fedora-8-x86_64-rescuecd.iso

The problem is I get to where I tell it to use the
hard disk as the source, then it offers the list of devices :
sda (internal SATA disk)
sdb (the usb disk)

I then usually use F2 so I can actually see the directories
and files. I used the F2 mode to select the F8rc3 DVD iso file
and it always dies with:

"install exited abnormally [ 1/1 ]
sending termination signals

I did the sha1sum and the image tested ok. The USB drive
has ext3 as the filesystem. I've used this exact install method
before and it worked fine.
Does this method have a problem if the iso file is several directories deep?
I put the file in:

isos/F8rc3/Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

maybe it has to be in the root of the drive?

UPDATE - I've decided to just loopback mount the DVD iso
from another machine on the network and do the
install via the askmethod ftp mode. This seems to be working well.


Mark


copy DVD.iso in to root directory of /dev/sdb or other fat32 ,ext3 partitions of sda &try.

[klehouse]

I'm having the same problem with Fedora 8 net install except it happens near or at the end of loading stage2.img. I, too, have installed using this method many times for Fedora 6 & 7 and have never had a problem.