On 2/22/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Valuable info. Thanks. > 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 Shall do. (Already subscribed to test list yesterday.) -nat
