F17 vs. Pentium 4

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, mwesten wrote:

> On 04/12/2012 11:52 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> 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 .

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

> I get that it's been frustrating for you, but this is a bleeding-edge 
> distribution which will have some issues now and then.  Also consider 
> that you are trying to use a non-standard means of installation.
>
> In any case, there still seems to be a problem with accessing the repo 
> files.  I'm not sure what would cause the selinux message you saw.
>
> I hope this /home1 is just a standard partition, without encryption or 
> LVM.  Is that right?  Whenever I do this, I just stick the iso in the 
> root of a FAT32 partition.

Correct. ext3.
The F16 installer installs packages, then dies.
The F17 installer just dies.

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