Making an F11 bootable install key for F11?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Jun 9 00:18:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 13:12:19 -0700,
  Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The reason I am asking is that I have a netbook with no optical drive, and
> it has ext3 partitions for / and /opt - I have a PartedMagic bootable usbkey
> in order to change the partition structure and shrink /opt to make space to
> add a /boot partition - so when installing F11 what I would like to do is to
> get anaconda to reformat both / and /opt to ext4.  However without any spare
> space or partitions I need to boot from something other than the HD and have
> the iso stored elsewhere too.....

You could make a live usb out of the boot.iso and use that to do a network
install. That saves on your initial download and you only download the
packages you are installing.




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