Hi Tim and thanks;
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 05:44 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
> I am sitting here watching bittorrent download Fedora-9-x86_64-CDs to
> my "backup" partition of a hard disk. I intend to install from there
> to my Linux partitions. When I did it this way for Fedora 8 (DVD),
> there was a rescue disk that I used for installation. I don't see a
> rescue disk for F9.
In F8, there was only the DVD iso, so a rescue disk was made available
that could be downloaded and burned. When booting it took you directly
to an options screen for installing or rescuing -- no 'askmethod'
involved.
There's a small net install ISO that offers a rescue feature.
I've used
it to specially prepare a pre-used drive before starting an
installation.
I haven't booted any other ISOs to see what they offer, but I seem to
recall reading that the DVD or first discs also offer a rescue feature
(e.g. disc one from a multi-disc set). The following link suggests that
any install disc should offer a rescue mode:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-boot-modes.html#s...
According to documentation, the DVD disc does *NOT* let you pick an
alternative install location (i.e. you boot from the DVD, you install
from the DVD). I haven't tested this.
See:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-install-diff-sour...
For CDs in F9 burn the first CD iso and it becomes the boot/rescue when
employing the 'askmethod' at the command line. This is exactly the way
it worked in F7. I was going to try this, but thought that maybe
instead of reverting to the older 'askmethod' the Fedora developers had
come up with some new procedure.
It only takes a line of explanation (or a link) about creating a boot
disk in the Installation Guide but some reassurance would have been --
well -- reassuring.
I got my answer from your suggested links and from having done it before
with Fc7. I have explained here in case someone else is having the same
quandary.
--
Regards Bill