Hard disk upgrade

[Timothy Murphy]

Mike Williams wrote:

>> Then I re-booted with the grub stanza
>> -------------------------
>> title Fedora 15 install
>>        root (hd0,4)
>>        kernel /vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda5:/Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso
>>        initrd /initrd.img
>> -------------------------
>>
>> I just did a hd install myself and did it a little differently, in my
>> case
> it did find everything needed for the install.  I also installed the new
> vmlinuz and initrd in a subdirectory of /boot but that isn't relevant here
> so we can skip those differences.
> 
> Here is what was different for my config:
> 
> 1. created a directory named images at the same level as the DVD.iso
> 2. copied install.img from /images of the iso to /images on the hard disk
>     (so on the install disk there was /Fedora...DVD.iso and a directory
> named /images
>     with the install.img file copied from the mounted DVD.iso)
> 
> 3. The last entry of the line with the repo info in grub.conf only
> contained the *path* to
>     the iso *not* the name of the file.  In your case, I think that this
> would have worked:

Thanks for the suggestions; I'll try them tomorrow.

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