On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:40:12PM +0200, A.J. Werkman` wrote: > Since F16 I compose local installation media on USB-drive for my purposes. > Basically I copy the content of a DVD/Server-iso to a ext3/4 formatted USB. > Further tailoring to my needs is then easy. > > This went well until F22_RC1. F22_TC4 was the last "release" that worked > well under this strategy. > > What I now see is that after booting my media and entering the central pane, > anaconda recognizes the boot media as local media, reported under > SOFTWARE/INSTALLATION SOURCE. But after entering this INSTALLATION SOURCE > pane I do not get the option to select local media, only iso-image and > network repo. After leaving the pane, even without making any change, on the > central pane local media is no longer selected and can not be selected > again. > > The question comes up has anaconda different criteria on different places in > the code how the presence of local media is determined? As anaconda at first > does recognize my USB-drive as local media, but later on it doesn't. > > In the hope to find a workaround on this matter, I now have two questions: > - What exactly changed between 22_TC4 and 22_RC1, that might cause this > difference in behaviour. > - What are the exact criteria the anaconda team has defined to have anaconda > detect local media. > > Subquestion: What can be the difference between local media created by > dd-ing the distributed media image to an USB-drive and copying this image by > mounting it and then using "(cd /image && tar cf - .) | (cd /usbdrive && tar > xvf -)" which also should make an exact copy. > After DD-ing the images to an USB-drive I do not see this strange behaviour. I'd recommend using dd or livecd-iso-to-disk for this instead of trying to roll your own method. Too many variables. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT) _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
