Installing fedora while running fedora?

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Sat Dec 4 18:29:53 UTC 2010


On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Rodd Clarkson wrote:

> Using a liveCD I can install fedora on my system while running the LiveCD.
>
> Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora?  This would be a
> really useful feature, but I'm not seeing any information on how to do it.

It should be possible using qemu like this:
qemu -cdrom fedora-livecd*.iso -boot d -hda /dev/sdb
in this case it expects you have completely free /dev/sdb disk as this is 
the easiest way. You'll have to fix grub and booting manually.

> Rodd

Adam Pribyl


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