[fedora-arm] Installing on a Hard Drive

[Dennis Gilmore]

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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:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Rawhide/Installation#Interactive_Network_Installation

yes, it is the preferred way to install Fedora on most systems 

> ??
> 
> Or something more specialized?
> 
> I can put the Cubieboard2 upboot on with:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. 

I am talking about pxe booting the installer to install to disk.

you can do anaconda installs via vnc or serial.  the u-boot should just
work and defualt to pxe when it cant boot locally 

Dennis
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