EEEPC FC11 install

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 14:43:52 UTC 2009


Andrew Cocker wrote:
> Hi
> I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
> Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
> have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
> tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
> livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
> attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
> creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
> mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
>
> Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
> and upgrading to FC11 instead?
>
> All advice gratefully received.
>
>   

Try a Live CD: you can boot it to ram (kernel option "live_ram") -- if
you do that, it won't even look for the cd, it will just copy the image
straight from memory.
I could be wrong about this, though





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