Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

[Rick Stevens]

On 12/22/2009 07:19 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> jackson byers wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>> My interpretation of what the OP is trying to do is different than yours:
>> He is trying to do a
>> "hard disk" install of f12, operating from his current fedora(f11?).
>
> That is correct. (I am the OP.)
>
>> This "hard disk" install requires having an available partition
>> completely separate from his current fedora.
>> 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".
>>
>> This "hard disk" install does point to the f12 iso,
>> but it also requires extracting the vmlinuz, initrd.img, and install.img
>> from the iso, which i think requires doing the loopback mount.
>> The install.img is placed in a "images" directory.
>> There are strict requirements on where that images dir is to be placed;
>> I am not sure, but i think the OP did this part correctly.
>> Where he might be going wrong is how he interacts with Anaconda,
>> as I tried to explain in  my earlier reply
>
> As I mentioned in a post above, this worked fine
> when I moved the Fedora ISO and the images directory
> to the top level on another partition.
> I'm not sure what I did wrong before.

The installer wants you to specify the disk partition where the .iso
is, AND the full path to the directory.  So, if it's on your /home
directory (on partition /dev/sda5) and in your "/home/tim/images"
directory, then you'd tell the installer:

	/dev/sda5	(for the partition)
	/tim/images	(for the directory)
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