How to install Fedora-12?

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Mon Nov 30 11:58:27 UTC 2009


jackson byers wrote:

>> Under Fedora-11, the USB stick is /dev/sdc ,
>> with the Fedora-12 partition at /dev/sdc2 .
> 
>> However, when I ran grub interactively, and set
> 
>> grub> root (hd2,1)
> 
>> it said that that disk did not exist.
>> I tried hd0 to hd6 but it only found
>> my 2 SCSI disks at hd0 and hd1 .
> 
>> It seems that grub does not necessarily see a USB disk,
>> even if Fedora can see it.
> 
> Yes, exactly the point of my earlier reply.
> 
> If you 'cp' or 'mv'  the vmlinuz and initrd.img to
> your internal disks, then grub can find them.

But will it then be able to see the USB stick,
in order to copy the Fedora-12 files to the hard disk?

Otherwise the exercise seems pointless,
as one might as well have copied the ISO file to the hard disk.


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