EDIT: I fixed the issue that i first encountered in the course of writing this particular post but i'll leave it for others to find.
Problem: I was wrong in thinking that doing a quick (using Windows) format was enough to format the USB stick between tries (which means some of the methods i tried in the first post, may actually work if the solution i'm about to describe is applied).
Solution: I had to follow the steps outlined here up to and including step 4:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-in...working-guide/ In order to properly format the usb stick, in Windows (which is the same steps you start out with doing to install Windows7 via usb stick).
(p.s. for other people... when it gets to the step where you format. As far as linux goes. Say FAT32 instead of NTFS, and also include the word "quick" in that line... or else the result is a lengthy format for no real reason)
And now i can re-enter the "gui" region of the fedora Anaconda install, right up to the part where it fails as described in my first post. The message being:
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Missing ISO 9660 Image
The installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it
on the hard drive.
Please copy this image to the drive and click Retry. Click
Exit to abort the installation.
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Now for the original post before i fixed the problem:
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Some strange new issue has occurred that is preventing me from trying your instructions, and also preventing me from doing what i was able to do in the first post... i.e. i cannot get to the "gui" segment of the Anaconda installer any more... i'm stuck in the steps early on where you select what language, what keyboard language, and where to find the Fedora images.
I did the sha256 check of Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso just to make sure it was unchanged and it still is valid.
Now every time i use unetbootin (for either Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso or Fedora-13-x86_64-netinst.iso) that i get the following prompt:
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Select Partition
What partition and directory on that partition holds the
installation image for Fedora? If you don't see the disk
drive you're using listed here, press F2 to
configure additional devices.
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
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Hitting OK on either sda1 or sda2 results in:
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Error
An error occurred finding the
installation image on your
hard drive. Please check your
images and try again.
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So that makes sense because these appear to be partitions that the Anaconda installer successfully created around the time of my first post.
Previously i would see /dev/sdc in that list meaning that the installer was detecting the usb stick. Now i do not see this drive and pressing F2 to manually select it results in a infinite loop where hitting OK does nothing.
For the sake of completeness, when i hit F2 to manually select the usb stick as the source i get this:
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Driver Disk Source
You have multiple devices which could
serve as sources for a driver disk.
Which would you like to use?
sr0
sdb
sdc
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Selecting any of the three and hitting OK does nothing!! it stays at this prompt.
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I'm wondering now if either something on the USB drive has died or that it was a combination of the 3 or so usb-producing utilities that resulted in my early partial success.
I think when i do a fat32 quick-format of the usb stick that i'm flushing any changes to the mbr of the usb stick, in the event that something is incorrect in this region.
