Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

[Rick Stevens]

On 12/22/2009 02:14 PM, jackson byers wrote:
>>> jackson byers:
>>>     There is no notion, afaik, of
>>>     "install a new Fedora on top of an already running Fedora"
>>>     as you put it, whatever you might mean by "on top of".
>
>> rick stevens:
>> That's what I was trying to get at.  He has to use a bootable image
>> (LiveCD, thumbdrive, something) that brings up Anaconda.  What I was
>> trying to get at was that one can't update F11 while still running F11.
>> The system being upgraded must be "quiescent".
>
> yes, but afaik the OP is not trying to "upgrade" or "update" F11.
> Rather he is using F11 and the F12 iso, (no LiveCD, no thumbdrive)
> and following the "hard disk" install procedure for F12.
> F11 is left entirely unchanged.
> When complete he will still have his orig F11, and also
> a brand new F12 in a separate partition.

I'll leave it here.  I've never tried to install the anaconda RPM and
invoke it from a running system to install a new version/distro on a
different disk or partition.  I've done parallel installations, but only
from bootable media...never from a live system.
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