Nat Gross wrote:
On 2/22/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nat Gross wrote:
Question: How do I get the show on the road.
Burn a DVD or read how to install Fedora from an ISO image transferred
to disk.
If I were able to find that info I wouldn't ask. I googled a LOT.
Thanks for the information. i assumed the letter for the mounts were C:
sort of designations.
I googled a bit and found the below link.
http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall/
Well you DEFINITELY can google better then me.<g> (It's an art on its own.)
I hope this helps you with the installation.
Yes!
There were many links that were pretty much personal sites with a lot of
tips and tricks. I did not find those hits useful and lucked out on
finding the above information using google.
Since you have a CD-RW on the computer you wish to upgrade, transferring
the dvd.iso over to the computer you wish to update and burning a
boot.iso or rescue CD iso should allow you to install from the dvd.iso
image that you transferred.
Ok. Now this is new. I can have the dvd iso on the same machine being upgraded?
I thought it has to be on another machine and hence resort to nfs.
On regular partitions it is possible to install from hard drive with FAT
or ext3. I believe the only requirement is that this location for the
source dvd.iso cannot be mounted as part of the future install. I used
this method before with all of the cd.iso files downloaded to a
directory on an unused for new distribution partition. All I needed to
do was to boot from either the rescue cd or boot.iso and select hard
disk install. From there, I had to supply the partition location and the
directory where the iso images were installed. The installation using
this method seemed to work out well and seemed to install quicker than
installing from DVD. You also did not have to change CDs for every
instance that the installer needed additional data. It installed from
one to the next iso.
ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/mirror/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/4.92/i386/os/images
is one location for example for the boot.iso location.
Originally, I thought (was hoping) that the boot.iso was *inside* the
dvd iso. Imho, it should be along with a readme for nfs installs.
I believe it is in the 3 gig dvd.iso. I figured getting the boot.iso
from a mirror would be simpler than looping the DVD.iso in order to
extract the boot.iso.
Thanks again.
-nat
When you get the computer up and running the test distro,
fedora-test-list and bugzilla are the helpful lists and bug reporting
sites. Hopefully you will catch bugs which will prevent the final burn
for FC5 to not have as many bugs as the previous distributions burned
with. This is supposed to be a cleanup phase before the release of FC5.
There are not a lot of new additions to this phase of testing.
Jim
