As a matter of interest, are there "official" instructions anywhere for installing a new version of Fedora on a spare partition of a machine already running Fedora, after downloading the DVD ISO to the machine?
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:01:24 +0200 Timothy Murphy wrote:
As a matter of interest, are there "official" instructions anywhere for installing a new version of Fedora on a spare partition of a machine already running Fedora, after downloading the DVD ISO to the machine?
Don't know about "official". I use the hard disk install technique which is probably documented around the web in various places (it got simpler with the fedora 15 dvd, since you no longer need to extract an install.img file and put it where anaconda can find it). Here's the /boot/grub/grub.conf entry I just used to install f15 beta in my machine:
title Install Fedora 15 Beta x86_64 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/f15x/vmlinuz repo=hd:LABEL=ZOOTY:/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ initrd /boot/f15x/initrd.img
The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ is the directory where I saved the iso image (where the /zooty mountpoint mounts a partition with the label ZOOTY).
Tom Horsley wrote:
As a matter of interest, are there "official" instructions anywhere for installing a new version of Fedora on a spare partition of a machine already running Fedora, after downloading the DVD ISO to the machine?
Don't know about "official". I use the hard disk install technique which is probably documented around the web in various places (it got simpler with the fedora 15 dvd, since you no longer need to extract an install.img file and put it where anaconda can find it). Here's the /boot/grub/grub.conf entry I just used to install f15 beta in my machine:
title Install Fedora 15 Beta x86_64 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/f15x/vmlinuz repo=hd:LABEL=ZOOTY:/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ initrd /boot/f15x/initrd.img
The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ is the directory where I saved the iso image (where the /zooty mountpoint mounts a partition with the label ZOOTY).
Thanks, that seems very clear. I didn't know one could add a "repo=" option to the kernel line.
It's surprising to me that the Fedora Installation Guide doesn't give this as a method of installation, since a significant number of people who want to upgrade must already be running Fedora or some other Unix.
I've always thought the Installation Guide is slightly lacking in common sense.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:19:40 +0200 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Thanks, that seems very clear. I didn't know one could add a "repo=" option to the kernel line.
Lots more stuff you can do as well:
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