Installing F11 from local hard drive

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Sun Jul 5 16:30:19 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 12:15 -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 07/05/2009 12:01 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> 
> > --Doc
> > 
> 
>   This works for me
> 
>   a) Prepare drive with what we need
> 
>        (i)
> 	  cd /path/to/dvd
>           mkdir /mnt/tmp
>           mount -o loop /mnt/tmp foo-dvd.iso
>           rsync -av /mnt/tmp/images .
>           rsync -av /mnt/tmp/isolinux .
> 
>        (ii) Booting install from grub
> 
>             mkdir /boot/f11
>             cp isolinux/vmlinuz isolinux/initrd.imf /boot/f11
> 
>             Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to add new entry (adjust the root
> to be same as your other lines)
> 
>             	title Fedora 11 Install
>         	root xxx
>         	kernel /boot/f11/vmlinuz
>         	initrd /boot/f11/initrd.img
> 
>   Now just boot and choose the fedora 11 line.
> 
>   good luck

Gene,

No can do. The hard drive I'd be using to boot from (/dev/sda) has been
reformatted by several aborted attempts to boot using 'linux askmethod'.

Right now I'm trying to copy the DVD image into .../os/images/ using the
<Ctrl><Alt>F2 console. I'm hoping anaconda will recognize and mount it,
allowing me to hit "Retry" and proceed. (Note that in a proper mirror
everything from the DVD is supposed to be in .../os/.)

--Doc




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