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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