2009/12/20 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>: > I'm taking the liberty of re-posting this query, > as there seemed some problems with the previous posting, > hopefully now resolved: > > Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12 > from the DVD ISO file on the hard disk, > by adding a stanza to grub.conf ? > > I carried out the following commands: > ----------------------------- > [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/Fedora > [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo mount -o loop Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora/ So that means Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso is in /home/tim/ > Now when I boot into this, all goes well > until I try to install from Fedora-12*.iso when I the error > "Device /dev/sda6 does not appear to contain > an installation image". > > Am I doing something wrong? I don't know for certain, but the only time I've ever tried this was on RHEL and the ISO file had to be on the root of the partition. So I think that means you should try moving it to /home/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso on the assumption that /dev/sda6 is /home -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
