Any way to install new Fedora on second drive of a running system?
Chris Snook
csnook at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 23:27:30 UTC 2009
B Wooster wrote:
> I wonder if this can be done - I'm have a system that is running Fedora Core 7.
>
> I want to avoid shutting down and rebooting and spending the hours to
> install Fedora 10 on this.
>
> I do have a second drive in this system that is not being used.
>
> So, wondering if I could run some special install program, that
> formats, partitions the second drive, installs Fedora 10, allows me to
> select and update and install packages.
>
> Then after I'm done, I'll just boot using the second drive.
>
> Is this possible?
>
The short answer is no. The long answer is yes, but it's way more trouble than
it's worth. Last time I checked, installing F10 only took a few minutes. Just
wait until you've booted up into it before you install every single package in
the distro.
-- Chris
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