Install test3 from Hard Drive

[Eric Brunson]

Eric Brunson wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>> Eric Brunson wrote:
>>> Is there a way to coerce the test3 installer to read its ISO images 
>>> from a filesystem on an LVM VG?
>> I tried this about a month ago, but couldn't find out what would be 
>> needed. I understand though that the 80M rescue cd contains a much 
>> wider range of device and logical drivers than the boot.iso, and it 
>> may just be a matter of passing the correct value in the boot: prompt 
>> or in the hard disk method ?
> I tried the rescue disk.  It too appears to have the problem that the 
> initial system it boots into can't read LVM, not until you choose the 
> go into rescue mode does it seem to activate the lvm and vgscan.
>>
>> I resorted to making some /home/install space on an ext3 drive so 
>> that the isos would be available; I have also got around it by 
>> mounting the iso's on another machine and making them available over 
>> ftp. (for dvd mount on eg disc, while for CD mkdirs of disc1, d2, d3, 
>> d4 etc and give the disc1 folder as the image location.
> I guess FTP is my next best hope to avoid burning the CDs.  With the 
> default layout of Fedora being 100M ext3 and everything else LVM is 
> seems pretty obvious that the installer should need to be able to read 
> LVM.  I may file a feature request.

I have filed a request for enhancement to enable anaconda to read 
logical volumes.