I'd love some opinion from people familiar with cloud usage of Fedora.
But the idea seems sound to me. The concept seems similar to how we do
PXE based installs, so I don't see why it would be thought of as dirty
or risky.
Paul
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:13 PM <alciregi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I have an idea. The article is about how to start Fedora installation
> process from GRUB.
> Let's suppose that you don't have physical access to a remote host and
> you have to reinstall the operating system. Or let's suppose that you
> have some sort of VPS and the cloud provider doesn't offer a Fedora
> image. In the latter case, some providers offer the possibility to
> upload and use a custom image (raw or qcow) and some others allow you
> to install the operating system from a mounted ISO. In the other hand
> some other providers doesn't allow you to choose an operating system
> outside the provided ones, so you can't run Fedora.
>
> I tested it on a couple of cloud providers, as well as using virt-
> manager, and it works.
> In short words, once provisioned the VM (running for instance CentOS)
> you have to add a new menu entry in GRUB and, as documented in the
> Anaconda docs, pass some options to the Compressed Linux kernel
> Executable (vmlinuz) in order to start the installation process from
> the network.
>
> However I don't know if it is suitable for the Magazine or if it is
> only a dirty and risky hack.
>
> Ciao,
> A.
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