Installing F11 from local hard drive

jackson byers byersjab at gmail.com
Sun Jul 5 21:09:56 UTC 2009


Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote

> 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 gru
>           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



don't you need "repo=...."  appended to kernel line? :

               kernel /boot/f11/vmlinuz  repo=hd:<device>:/<path>

Jack




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