Question about hard disk installation

[Mark LaPierre]

On 12/30/2011 10:31 PM, alick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about installing Fedora from hard disk.
>
> I downloaded a DVD iso, extract vmlinuz and initrd.img to
> partition A, then I put iso file onto partition B.
>
> Since I have grub (grub1) from old version of Fedora, I can
> use it to boot extracted vmlinuz, and start my installation.
>
> I already know that partition B should be ext2/3/4 or FAT, and
> should never be formatted during installation. Now I wonder
> what requirements should partition A have. Can partition A be
> formatted during installation? Is it necessary A is ext3/4?
> Is it better that A is the same as B?
>
> Note: yeah I indeed have installed Fedora 16. During my installation
> partition A is a small not-used ext3 partition. The installation
> works as expected. Now I just want to know whether partition A
> can be say my old / partition(which will be formatted).
>
> Note again: this is my first post here. If this question is asked
> and answered before, hope someone can point me there.

If all you have in this partition is the vmlinuz and initrd.img files 
you can do anything you want to the partition after you are booted into 
the system.  The vmlinuz file is uncompressed into a ramdisk on boot up 
so it is no longer needed on the HD.

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