Bugzilla – Bug 154945
Can't install CD2 from different source than CD1
Last modified: 2006-05-12 08:21:08 UTC
For my test installation I have burned just the CD1 onto the real media and wanted to continue with CD2 right from the ISO image on one of the existing partitions. So far so good - CD1 installed correctly, installer prompted me to swap the media, and offered me "cd:///;dev=/dev/hdb" (more less, I don't recall the exact URL for CD). At this stage *I wish* I could enter something like "iso://suse-iso/cd2.iso;dev=/dev/hdb4" but I can't, never mind. Anyway I loopback-mounted the ISO to /tmp/cd2 and used this as the URL. No luck. Tried "file:///tmp/cd2". No luck. Tried to sneak in the loopback device itself (/dev/loop0) as the CDROM device. No luck. The only way that finally worked was replacing the device node /dev/hdb with a duplicate of /dev/loop0. Then it all installed fine. The installer simply ignored any changes into the URL and insisted on installing from /dev/hdb. I understand this functionality won't be required by the majority of users but still, the URL dialog is there and should work...
It should. Please attach the y2logs of this installation (/var/log/YaST2).
Please reopen this bug once you can provide the information. Also consider testing this with Beta7 again.
All right, tested once again with CD2 loopback-mounted in /tmp/m2. Entering "/tmp/m2" into the URL dialog failed. Entering "file:///tmp/m2/" worked. This is not too intuitive :-/ Will post y2log in a minute...
Created attachment 72415 [details] y2log I haven't played the above described game with hdb/loop0 device nodes again. This is for /tmp/m2 vs file:///tmp/m2/
source handling -> stano
/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/tmp/CurrentMedia/suse/setup/slide/txt/en does not exist 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] MediaAccess.cc(open):96 Trying scheme 'file' 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] MediaDIR.cc(MediaDIR):47 MediaDIR::MediaDIR(file:///tmp/m2/) 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] MediaAccess.cc(open):125 Opened: file(file:///tmp/m2/ not attached; localRoot "/tmp/m2") 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaManager.cc(open):238 Opened new media access using id 3 to file:///tmp/m2/ 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [source] SourceImpl.cc(provideFile):137 ProvideFile exception caught, callback answer: 4 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [source] SourceImpl.cc(provideFile):155 Going to release and attach again 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(release):539 Request to release attached media cdrom</dev/hdb[3,64]>, use count=1 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(release):546 Releasing media cdrom</dev/hdb[3,64]> 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):166 Executing '/bin/umount' '/var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001' 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):276 pid 3990 launched 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(checkStatus):329 pid 3990 successfully completed 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] Mount.cc(Status):236 exit code: 0 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] Mount.cc(umount):203 unmounted /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] Mount.cc(~Mount):45 ~Mount() 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] Mount.cc(~Mount):52 ~Mount() end 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(removeAttachPoint):109 MediaHandler - checking if to remove attach point 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):166 recursive_rmdir /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 Executing '/bin/rm' '-rf' '--preserve-root' '--' '/var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001' 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):276 pid 3992 launched 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(checkStatus):329 pid 3992 successfully completed 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] PathInfo.cc(_Log_Result):291 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(removeAttachPoint):121 Deleted default attach point /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(release):574 Released: cd:///?devices=/dev/hdb not attached; localRoot "" 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaCD.cc(attachTo):278 next 0 last 0 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaCD.cc(attachTo):307 count 0 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaCD.cc(closeTray):199 Close tray /dev/hdb 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(createAttachPoint):293 Trying to create attach point in /var/adm/mount 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] PathInfo.cc(_Log_Result):291 mkdir /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 00755 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(createAttachPoint):270 Created default attach point /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):166 Executing '/bin/mount' '-t' 'iso9660' '-o' 'ro' '/dev/hdb' '/var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001' 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):276 pid 3993 launched 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(checkStatus):329 pid 3993 successfully completed 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] Mount.cc(Status):236 exit code: 0 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <1> linux(3828) [media] Mount.cc(mount):132 mounted /dev/hdb /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(checkAttached):412 Mount table changed - rereading it 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaHandler.cc(checkAttached):427 Found media cdrom</dev/hdb[3,64]> in the mount table 2006-03-11 23:46:21 <0> linux(3828) [media] MediaCD.cc(attachTo):402 0 1 Looks like the URL is not redirected properly.
(In reply to comment #6) > /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/tmp/CurrentMedia/suse/setup/slide/txt/en does > not exist This message does not only appear when using file:// - I had it with a NFS installation also. See bug 155281 for details and y2logs.
Michal, can you still reproduce this with the latest RC available?
Hi Gerald, in RC3 the behaviour is still the same as per comment #3, i.e. it _is_ somehow possible to set a different installation source for CD2-5 but the syntax is pretty user unfriendly and unlikely to be successfully guessed (at least for localy loop-mounted ISOs). My wish for the iso://... URL still remains.
Any proposals how to express different kinds of mountable media (nfs, hd, dir, file, cifs, smb) together with iso:// ? Marius had good reasons to design the iso url as it is.
How about iso://<path_on_the_filesystem>?dev=<url_of_the_filesystem> E.g. iso:///suse-iso/dvd.iso?dev=/dev/hdb4 or ?dev=nfs://server/share etc.
In zypp MediaManager, you can use just: iso:/?iso=/path/to/CD1.iso for local iso files, or also the longer/generic format: iso:/?iso=CD1.iso&url=dir:/path/to The last one also allows other sources for the iso in the url parameter: dir (file), hd, nfs, cifs (smb). For example: iso:/?iso=CD1.iso&url=nfs://server/path/to iso:/?iso=CD1.iso&url=hd:/?device=/dev/hda as well as iso:/?iso=CD1.iso&url=hd:/subdir/on/hdd?device=/dev/hda See also doxygen documentation of the MediaManager, that documents all supported media url schemes.
Closing it - when using correct parameters in iso:/// urls, it works fine.