[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD!

[mike cloaked]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:30 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> I decided to try another tack this evening on my test machine which
> "was" running F15 - I placed the F16 install iso on a partition which
> would not be touched - and loop mounted it - then pulled vmlinuz and
> initrd.img into /boot, and made a new stanza in /boot/grub/grub.conf
> (another technique I have used for years).
>
> It booted into the installer just fine - but here is the catch/snag -
> instead of being able to point the install to using the iso on the
> unused partition it asks for a network location for the repos -but I
> could not get it to use the local iso!  Maybe I am being dumb or is
> this something that can't be done with F16 installs?
>
> Now the install is off and running but of course will take a lot
> longer than using the local iso for the packages - but of course I
> have now formatted the root partition so I can't go back to the start
> point!
>
> Have I done something dumb here?  Or have I missed something in
> getting an install to run off my HD?

Thinking about it I am now wondering if I should have added
"repo=hd:device" to the grub stanza kernel line.....
-- 
mike c