How to install Fedora-12?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Tue Dec 1 03:16:29 UTC 2009
Mikkel wrote:
>> But will it then be able to see the USB stick,
>> in order to copy the Fedora-12 files to the hard disk?
>>
>> Otherwise the exercise seems pointless,
>> as one might as well have copied the ISO file to the hard disk.
>>
>>
> Once the kernel boots, it will see the USB drive as long as the USB
> and USB storage modules are build into initrd.img. Once the kernel
> and the initial ramdisk are loaded, you are no longer using the BIOS
> for access.
But if I click on "Install on Hard Disk",
won't it look on the hard disk where vmlinuz and initrd have been copied
for the data to download?
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Timothy Murphy
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