On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:30 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I decided to try another tack this evening on my test machine which
"was" running F15 - I placed the F16 install iso on a partition which
would not be touched - and loop mounted it - then pulled vmlinuz and
initrd.img into /boot, and made a new stanza in /boot/grub/grub.conf
(another technique I have used for years).
It booted into the installer just fine - but here is the catch/snag -
instead of being able to point the install to using the iso on the
unused partition it asks for a network location for the repos -but I
could not get it to use the local iso! Maybe I am being dumb or is
this something that can't be done with F16 installs?
Now the install is off and running but of course will take a lot
longer than using the local iso for the packages - but of course I
have now formatted the root partition so I can't go back to the start
point!
Have I done something dumb here? Or have I missed something in
getting an install to run off my HD?
Thinking about it I am now wondering if I should have added
"repo=hd:device" to the grub stanza kernel line.....
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mike c