EEEPC FC11 install

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sun Jun 28 16:01:26 UTC 2009


On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:49:13 +1000
"Andrew Cocker" <andrew at cocker.id.au> wrote:

> Hi
> I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months
> on an Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11
> failed so I have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no
> optical drive and I have tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard
> drive.  I tried both livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable
> USB drive.  In every attempt anaconda runs but after I get through
> the partitioning stage it creates a file system and then fails with
> an error message that it cannot mount the ISO source,
> usually /dev/sdb1.
>
> Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling
> FC10 and upgrading to FC11 instead?

Does the error look anything like any of the ones at: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#Installation_issues

> All advice gratefully received.

If you have another linux machine there you could setup as a PXE
server, you could pxeboot the machine and net install it. ;) 

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/sn-booting-from-pxe.html

kevin
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