Question about hard disk installation

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 12:57 +0800, alick wrote:
> 于 2011年12月31日 12:00, Craig White 写道:
> > On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 11:31 +0800, 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.
> > ----
> > why do you say - should never be formatted during installation? Default
> > installation would normally reformat any partitions you designate for
> > use and it's the only way to ensure that the install is clean.
> > 
> In my mind, during installing from hard drive, the software should be
> copied from the partition which holds the ISO file. In case this
> partition get reformatted at partitioning procedure, software then can
> not be found. Is it so?
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it will be formatted prior to copying (installing) any files
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> Well, I use partition A to denote the partition which holds vmlinuz file
> extracted from the ISO file. And I use partition B to denote the
> partition which holds the ISO file. Hope I explain better.
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The partition holding the ISO file will not be formatted and cannot be
used by the new install at all.
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> Sorry for my not-good English.
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no problem - just wanted to make sure we were clear.

Craig


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