Installation Without Media

[kldixon]

I appear to have been deprived of my preferred method of installation
since Fedora 9, 'Installation Without Media' using the netinst iso.

netinst 23_Beta iso does not report any Local Standard Disks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274668

I seem to remember that there was a complaint, once, that the
installation medium was reported under 'Local Standard Disks'. If this
was acted on, then a very useful installation method has been precluded.
It may have been a relevant complaint if the installation medium was a
DVD but I do not see why one should be prevented from installing to the
the free space of a USB stick, if that is what you want, or, most
importantly, be prevented from installing to a single hard drive when
you do not have a DVD writer and your machine will not boot from USB or
you do not have a spare USB stick handy.

Is it now policy that you should not be able to install to the same
storage hardware that contains the installer?
If so, why?

[David Lehman]

Post by kldixon
I appear to have been deprived of my preferred method of installation
since Fedora 9, 'Installation Without Media' using the netinst iso.
netinst 23_Beta iso does not report any Local Standard Disks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274668
I seem to remember that there was a complaint, once, that the
installation medium was reported under 'Local Standard Disks'. If this
was acted on, then a very useful installation method has been
precluded.
It may have been a relevant complaint if the installation medium was a
DVD but I do not see why one should be prevented from installing to the
the free space of a USB stick, if that is what you want, or, most
importantly, be prevented from installing to a single hard drive when
you do not have a DVD writer and your machine will not boot from USB or
you do not have a spare USB stick handy.
Is it now policy that you should not be able to install to the same
storage hardware that contains the installer?
If so, why?

Yes. People could (and did) shoot themselves in the foot by trying to
modify the partition table on the disk containing the installation
media. We decided to eliminate one of the variations on installation
instead of adding a wide array of protections via the GUI to allow
this.

Don't fret, there are still roughly 999,999 variations to choose from.
You could probably still boot a kernel+initramfs from local storage and
point to network-based LiveOS.img or install.img or whatever the stage2
image is called now.

David

Post by kldixon
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