I do my Fedora installs and upgrades by booting off of a CDR and doing a NFS install from the DVD image that I have on my fileserver.
Is there a difference (other than the logo screen) between the boot cd images for Fedora versions? In other words, can I use my F7 boot cd to install F8, or am I better off to create a new CD from the image on the F8 dvd?
Frank Cox wrote:
I do my Fedora installs and upgrades by booting off of a CDR and doing a NFS install from the DVD image that I have on my fileserver.
Is there a difference (other than the logo screen) between the boot cd images for Fedora versions? In other words, can I use my F7 boot cd to install F8, or am I better off to create a new CD from the image on the F8 dvd?
Yes, there are major differences in the boot environment. You can get the Fedora 8 boot image (or better yet the rescue image since it has the second stage installer too) from one of the mirrors.
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/8/ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-which-files.html
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
I do my Fedora installs and upgrades by booting off of a CDR and doing a NFS install from the DVD image that I have on my fileserver.
Is there a difference (other than the logo screen) between the boot cd images for Fedora versions? In other words, can I use my F7 boot cd to install F8, or am I better off to create a new CD from the image on the F8 dvd?
Yes, there are major differences in the boot environment. You can get the Fedora 8 boot image (or better yet the rescue image since it has the second stage installer too) from one of the mirrors.
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/8/ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-which-files.html
There's a long thread on doing network installs, perhaps you could either read it and tell us the magic way to make it work off a *local* DVD image, or you could add a caution to you advice, the install does work, eventually, but only with external network connection.
Bill Davidsen wrote:
There's a long thread on doing network installs, perhaps you could either read it and tell us the magic way to make it work off a *local* DVD image, or you could add a caution to you advice, the install does work, eventually, but only with external network connection.
I didn't read the other thread but the network installation was tested to work with a local image too before release since it part of the release criteria.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria
It might be possible that there are bugs that slipped past the tests and we would need specific bug reports to confirm.
Rahul