Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i asked about installing FC3 on a CD-less laptop on the fedora list
just a while ago, and i was given the following link:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html
which looks like it will do just what i want. (the laptop is, in
fact, running FC2 at the moment, so i appear to be good to go.)
my only question is, that web page talks strictly about doing an
upgrade. i would like to totally repartition the drive and use LVM,
which is not the way it's set up now.
the question is, once i use grub to get the initial kernel and
initrd, and i select an NFS install, and i repartition and start the
install, is there no further use for all of the isolinux/ stuff i
copied onto the hard drive on the laptop?
that is, am i safe in assuming that the install process is done with
all of the isolinux/ stuff so that the repartitioning won't hurt
anything? that *seems* to be the case, but i'd rather know for sure.
thanks.
When using any media with just the isolinux boot stuff, it is safe to
remove the media as soon as the installer loads.
With media that has a local installer, this is not the case. You cannot
remove Disk one until prompted, when installing from Disk1, even if you
do a kickstart. My understanding, from observation, is that if there is
a local installer, the disk will remain mounted, even if the installer
is not used.
