Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200706 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 06:40:51 UTC 2007


Martin J Hooper <martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> I've got a few really old systems (ppro-150 and p-II) that are
>>  resistant to any simple installs too.  This systems are too
>> old to boot from CD, DVD or usb.  I found that ripping the
>> hard disk out and putting it in a more modern system is the
>> easiest way to install Fedora on it.  (In fact I'm watching
>> the install of F7 on the P-II's disk finish as I type this.)
>
> Just curious - Wouldn't you have hardware detection problems ie
> installing newer hardware drivers that are not on the older computer?

Maybe I just got lucky, but it worked really well under FC6 for both
target systems.  The only strangeness I noticed was that the network
config file got auto-rebuilt because the MAC address changed.  I may
have touched up the xorg file by hand too, (via running "X
-configure"), and merging the new bits into the fedora-created file.

I haven't put the newly built F7 drive back into the old system, so I
can't report any success on that front yet.

-wolfgang
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