[fedora-arm] Installing on a Hard Drive

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/19/2014 04:24 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:57:01 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/19/2014 03:08 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:18:29 -0400
>>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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>>>> I have a couple SATA drives I would like to test booting from.  Is
>>>> there anything special I need to do, or can I 'just' attach with a
>>>> USB/SATA adapter, run the install script (and the Cubieboard2 uboot
>>>> dd command), and boot?
>>>>
>>>> Once I figure out the right power connector, I will be using some
>>>> IDE drives on an IDE/SATA adapter as well.
>>> really the best way to install to sata is to put u-boot on a sdcard
>>> and boot the machine. you should have dhcp setup and configure pxe
>>>    booting. then just do an install using anaconda.
>> OK.  all new to me.
>>
>> Are you talking about the interactive network installation presented
>> at:
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>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Rawhide/Installation#Interactive_Network_Installation
> yes, it is the preferred way to install Fedora on most systems
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>> ??
>>
>> Or something more specialized?
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>> I can put the Cubieboard2 upboot on with:
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>> dd if=/root/u-boot-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdb
>> bs=1024 seek=8; sync
>>
>> I have dhcp on my network, do I have to do anything on the SDcard to
>> support it?
>>
>> For the anaconda install.  No video on the Cubieboard, I only have
>> serial console and ssh.
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>> And PXE booting.  Are you saying that I am not installing to the
>> drive, but booting all the time from the network?
>>
>> Confused here...  :)
> Please do not CC me on list email.

Sorry.  This is one of those lists when you click reply in thunderbird, 
you get sender and list.  I will pay better attention; each list acts 
differently.
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> I am talking about pxe booting the installer to install to disk.
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> you can do anaconda installs via vnc or serial.  the u-boot should just
> work and defualt to pxe when it cant boot locally

I will give it a try.


thanks.