>>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/s1- begininstall-hd-x86.html >>> for details). >> >> Agreed, and that is the best reference >I was looking again at this reference, >and I really don't think it is very good, >or likely to be helpful to someone trying to boot from hard disk. That reference is(was) particularly important for showing explicitly that you need the leading slash {"/") for the directory. The leading slash needed starting in F10, prior to F10 no leading slash, which caused much confusion when attempting hdinstall starting from F10 (see bugzilla ref below). >In the first place, I would have thought that almost anyone doing this >would want to (or need to) avoid CDs or DVDs altogether, >by abstracting vmlinuz, initrd.img and the images directory >from the ISO file, >and adding a stanza to grub.conf to boot from these. >There are no instructions for doing this, as far as I can see. Well, you seem to have figured it out, congrats! May I ask, just where did you find the instructions re install.img,? I myself depended heavily on the references following; not much on the fedora site hdinstall was thoroughly discussed in these 3 refs: 1) fedora-list nov 2008 * F10 HD install - anyone successfully done this? From: Mike Cloaked and response by Tom Horsley 2} Bug 473351 - F10 HD install using the DVD iso file, initiated from grub, fails 3)View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F10-HD-install---anyone-successfully-done-this--tp20740373p20741211.html and a more recent thread: 4)fedora-list Jul 2009 Mail Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Re: Installing F11 from local hard drive cheers, Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
