On 12/15/2015 02:22 PM, dwoody5654 wrote:
On 12/15/2015 04:20 PM, cs wrote:
On 12/15/2015 03:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote:
I have been using the following with no problems:
url --url
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/
However, One computer I need to upgrade is in another city and in an
area that has power outages on occasion but It has battery backup.
During a netinstall, if the power goes out while downloading the
packages -- that would require me to go to the location. So I am
trying
to use a local OS tree for the install. This will reduce the risk from
power outage.
The documentation says the following:
|harddrive|
Install from a tree or full installation ISO image on a local hard
drive. The tree or ISO image must be on a file system which is
mountable in the installation environment. Supported file systems
are |ext2|, |ext3|, |ext4|, |vfat|, or |xfs|.
|install| |harddrive --partition= | --biospart= [--dir=]|
|--partition=|
Partition to install from (such as |sdb2|).
|--biospart=|
BIOS partition to install from (such as |82p2|).
|--dir=|
Directory containing the installation tree or ISO image.
I only have one drive in the computer: /dev/sda.
When I use:
|harddrive --partition=/dev/sda2 --dir=/path/os|
The target mount points are:
sda1 is mounted as /
sda2 is mounted as /home
The errors are that the drive is not found for install and os tree also
fails.
I also tried:
|harddrive --partition=sda2 --dir=/path/os|
I have not found any other info.
Is there documentation elsewhere that has more details on the use of an
OS tree?
You choose either "--partition=" OR "--biospart=" OR "--dir=", not
multiples (the "|" character means "OR"). In your case, you'd do
install harddrive --dir=/path/to/isofile
Using --dir only, I get an error that says the partition or the
biospart must be specified.
Ah. Ok, I suspect you need:
install harddrive --partition=sda2 --dir=path/to/tree
don't include a leading "/" in the partition or dir parameters and
don't include the pipe characters ("|"). The pipe characters are only
there to show you the various options. In this case the permutations
are:
install harddrive --partition=somepart
install harddrive --partition=somepart --dir=somepath
install harddrive --biospart=somepart
install harddrive --biospart=somepart --dir=somepath
If you don't include "--dir=somepath", then it's expected that the
tree or ISO file is in the root of the "--partition=" or
"--biospart=" specified.
I haven't written a kickstart file in a long, LONG time, so I'm a bit
rusty.
Also I am trying to use a os tree that I downloaded from
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/23/Everything/i386/os/
David
For example, if the ISO file is
/home/ISOFiles/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso, then I think you'd
use:
install harddrive
--dir=/home/ISOFiles/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso
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