f7 on livecd?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Aug 9 04:55:24 UTC 2007


Globe Trotter wrote:
> --- Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:51:17PM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
>>> --- Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:34:11PM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
>>>>> Thanks! So, can a 64-bit install be done from the USB....because one of
>> my
>>>>> machines only has an external DVD-R....
>>>> I don't know about x86_64, but it works nicely on x86. If the machine
>>>> won't boot to external USB, you can burn the boot image on the DVD to
>>>> a CD, and boot to that. It will detect and use the USB DVD.
>>> Sorry, but what does a USB DVD mean? 
>> Sorry, I assumed from your comment above that your external DVD-R was
>> USB. Anyway, Anaconda usually uses the same kernel version as the
>> kernel to be installed, so anything the regular kernel can use
>> Anaconda should be able to use.
>>
>>> Looking at stuff, it appears that there is a boot.img for x86_64 for
>>> usb -- however, this file is exactly the same as for i386. I don't
>>> know much (anything) about these files, but shouldn't the files
>>> actually be different....
>> I don't know why you need a 64 bit Anaconda; I should think a 32 bit
>> Anaconda would do just fine. But I'm no expert here. Maybe someone
>> will correct me.
>>
>> Did you read the README in /images?
>>
>> Or consider installing over your network. I do all my installs over
>> NFS these days. It's much faster.
> 
> I'd like to do this. I  tried this with a 32-bit machine some time ago, but was
> unable to get far. I think the problem was when I put in the URL (as per FC
> instructions) it would come back and keep asking for the URL. I could also not
> do it from the HDD for the same reason. Are there more detailed instructions
> somewhere? Is the process the same for 64-bit? I have both kinds of
> machines....Can someone please provide me with instructions for a 64-bit 
> machine? 

Is http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/

enough to get started?





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