Clodoaldo wrote: > I want to install F8. I can't burn a CD. > > I have a FC6 rescue CD from which I can boot. I tried to install > booting from the FC6 rescue CD and then from a HTTP mirror but the > installation stops with a message that says something like "the > install media version is different from the version you want to > install". > That is understandable. The CD and the URL need to be from the same version. > I have already installed from a pen drive a number of times but this > machine can't boot from the pen drive. > > Booting from the FC6 rescue CD I can mount the pen drive which has the > diskboot.img file wrote with dd as I already did sometimes. Is it > possible to continue from here, with the mounted pen drive? > You might be better off burning the boot.iso from the DVD image and proceeding from there. The problem is that mounting the pen drive does not give you the proper kernel, or access to the compressed file system on the pen drive. It may be possible to get a boot loader on CD that will let you boot from the pen drive. I have never needed it, so I have not researched it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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