Replacing the boot kernel in the installer

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 12:46:08 UTC 2008


Sure, I was just looking for a way to avoid downloading a DVD iso ...

On 23/01/2008, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:24:32 +0000
> "Bill Crawford" <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I successfully installed F8 at home, but I've been unable to get the
> > installer to run on my Aspire here at work. It fails due a problem
> > with the sata_sis driver, which is fixed in the latest F7 kernel
> > update so I assume the current F8 kernel is fine too. Is it possible
> > to simply boot from a different kernel (and update the modules in the
> > initrd, of course) and run the installer? Or, if I need to update the
> > stage 2 image as well, how do I point at the updated stage 2, and can
> > I do so while still proceeding to fetch the install packages off the
> > network?
>
> You could just try the Fedora Unity respins.
>
> josh
>
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