I'd love some opinion from people familiar with cloud usage of Fedora. But the idea seems sound to me. The concept seems similar to how we do PXE based installs, so I don't see why it would be thought of as dirty or risky. Paul On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:13 PM <alciregi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello. > I have an idea. The article is about how to start Fedora installation > process from GRUB. > Let's suppose that you don't have physical access to a remote host and > you have to reinstall the operating system. Or let's suppose that you > have some sort of VPS and the cloud provider doesn't offer a Fedora > image. In the latter case, some providers offer the possibility to > upload and use a custom image (raw or qcow) and some others allow you > to install the operating system from a mounted ISO. In the other hand > some other providers doesn't allow you to choose an operating system > outside the provided ones, so you can't run Fedora. > > I tested it on a couple of cloud providers, as well as using virt- > manager, and it works. > In short words, once provisioned the VM (running for instance CentOS) > you have to add a new menu entry in GRUB and, as documented in the > Anaconda docs, pass some options to the Compressed Linux kernel > Executable (vmlinuz) in order to start the installation process from > the network. > > However I don't know if it is suitable for the Magazine or if it is > only a dirty and risky hack. > > Ciao, > A. > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
