F17 vs. Pentium 4

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Apr 12 15:52:30 UTC 2012


On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, mwesten wrote:

> On 04/11/2012 08:52 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> Here is the final grub stanza:
>>> title Install Fedora16 from iso 11 15:34
>>> root (hd0,2)
>>> kernel /isolinux16/vmlinuz repo=hd:LABEL=/home1:/iso16 acpi=off
>>> processor.nocst=1 maxcpus=1 selinux=0
>>> initrd /isolinux16/initrd.img

> As far as "installing without media", I believe your repo= is incorrect.
>
> LABEL= takes a volume label, not a mountpoint.  The blkid command will 
> tell you if there is one and what it is.  You can set it with GPARTED.
>
> So, if blkid says the label of the /home1 partition is "F16DVD", use

/home1 is the label.
It's usual mountpoint is /homes .

> repo=hd:LABEL=F16DVD:/iso16
>
> I would stick with F16 for now.  Due to the changes in Anaconda for F17, 
> this gets a bit trickier to do...

I'll use whichever I can get to work.
So far, neither.

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