Install can't find the image on the DVD?

[absinthe]

I obtained a Fedora 11 DVD (x86_64) via BitTorrent and am trying to install. It boots fine from the DVD and starts to go through the options, but when it asks me where the installation image is located and I select "CD/DVD drive," it tells me that the image cannot be found on the drive.

I open and re-close the DVD drawer, and the install tells me that it's searching the drive for the image, but then it doesn't find it again.

How can this be?

[oz]

Check this HowTo for making sure you've burned the image to disk properly:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

If you are certain that you followed all steps properly, you could test the installation disk that created in another computer to see if it works there.

[Rubberman]

Did you run a checksum (md5sum or sha1sum) on the image that you downloaded and compared that to the published one for the image? You might have a corrupted copy.

[absinthe]

A corrupt download would be the logical conclusion, but I don't feel that's the case. According to the Fedora website, downloads through BitTorrent are verified as part of the download process, so it should be good. In fact, the reason I decided to use a Torrent to get the DVD is because whenever I would download it direct I could never get the checksums to match.

Doesn't make sense. I'm going to play with the Live CD until I can get this sorted out.

Dangit.

[Rubberman]

Bittorrent can only verify that what you asked for is what you got, not that the original copy you asked for might have been corrupted before you downloaded it. Personally, I would like Linux downloads to also have a set of par2 files to go with the disc images so if you did get a bad copy, you could correct it at your end without needing to download the entire thing again.

[KingX]

...Personally, I would like Linux downloads to also have a set of par2 files to go with the disc images so if you did get a bad copy, you could correct it at your end without needing to download the entire thing again.

I second that, downloading a file and then having a md5 sum mismatch is a bummer in having to re-download the whole thing again. People with faster connections can get away with it.. but those on slower connections tend to feel the pain.

[absinthe]

OK, I'm still having the problem. The MD5 sum checks out fine. The DVD I burned from it will boot up to the installation, but when it gets to the point where it asks where the installation image is, and I select CD/DVD, it immediately tells me that there is no install image on the drive. I eject the drive and close it again, and then it searches the media, and after that it repeats that there's no installation image.

I can't figure it out! I've downloaded this image something like 3 times, and I've never had this kind of trouble w/a downloaded image before.

I've got Ubuntu on a CD. I'm thinking of just trying that, but traditionally I've been a Fedora fan.

Ideas?

[waterhead]

I don't understand why it would be asking for the disk image. That is something that it would ask if you boot from the smaller boot image, or the floppy image. There you can do a network install or install from an .iso image file.

To install from the .iso image file, it needs to be on a separate partition than the one that you will install to. You need to give it the path to the .iso file, like this:

/dev/sdb1

It HAS to be the .iso image, not the files contained in the .iso image.

[absinthe]

But I don't understand. I am *booting* from the disc image, so how can it possibly not find it?

On another note, it does give me the option to install from a specific location (device, like you mention above). Can I just plop my ISO image on the root of my Windows partition (NTFS), boot up from the DVD, and then point to the ISO on the NTFS partition and that will work? I have a whole separate physical drive that I plan to install to.

[waterhead]

On the Fedora DVD, there is a /images folder This folder contains three boot images, for various different installation methods.

efiboot.img 688KB
efidisk.img 21.7MB
install.img 110.7MB

Judging from the size, the first one is a floppy image. The other two would have to be CD images. You must be booting from one of these.

If you have the DVD image, it will be 3.4GB. You should then be able to put it in the top of the windows directory, and the installer will find it there.

But, if you have the DVD iso, then you should be able to burn that to a DVD, and boot and install from that. There are two circumstances where you couldn't do this. One is if you have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner, the other is if you don't have a DVD-ROM.