On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Phil Meyer wrote: > 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. ok, that seems to jive with the test i just ran, where i copied the isolinux stuff into /boot, booted from that and, as part of the install, reformatted /boot (thereby blasting all the isolinux stuff). no problem, the laptop is installing as we speak. must remember this trick. rday
