A different way of installing Fedora

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

On 09/25/2013 05:45 PM, David wrote:
> On 9/25/2013 7:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>> Several of my machies have SATA hot swap ports.
>> These make it easy to use smaller drives as backup media.
>>
>> When RC4 came out I installed it on a 4 TB drive using an
>> older E6550 machine.  At my leisure I added lots of apps
>> and libs that I normally use.
>>
>> Then I slipped that drive in my omen.com server and changed
>> the boot order to boot that drive.  I changed hostname and
>> domainname, restored some of my control files, and omen.com
>> was back on the air relatively quickly.
>>
>> I was fortunate this procedure worked as netinst was unable to
>> install RC4 while running on the server.
>>
>> This "trick" depends on Fedora apparently being able to make modest
>> adjustments to the machine environment on boot up.
>>
>> Is this a valid procedure?
>>
>
> A "valid procedure?"
>
> Hmm..
>
> Sounds like a eclectic procedure and situation to me.
>
My concern is wether this procedure results in a kernel that is
less optimized for the CPU it is running on than if Fedora had
been installed directly on that machine.

I don't know enough about Fedora installation to know what,
if any, processor related optimizations are made in the install
instead of boot time.

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