On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote: > I am sitting here watching bittorrent download Fedora-9-x86_64-CDs to > my "backup" partition of a hard disk. I intend to install from there > to my Linux partitions. When I did it this way for Fedora 8 (DVD), > there was a rescue disk that I used for installation. I don't see a > rescue disk for F9. There's a small net install ISO that offers a rescue feature. I've used it to specially prepare a pre-used drive before starting an installation. I haven't booted any other ISOs to see what they offer, but I seem to recall reading that the DVD or first discs also offer a rescue feature (e.g. disc one from a multi-disc set). The following link suggests that any install disc should offer a rescue mode: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-boot-modes.html#sn-mode-rescue According to documentation, the DVD disc does *NOT* let you pick an alternative install location (i.e. you boot from the DVD, you install from the DVD). I haven't tested this. See: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-install-diff-source.html My installation was done thus: I downloaded the i386 DVD and netinst ISOs, burnt the netinst ISO, booted it, and ran my install using it with the downloaded DVD ISO file on an external USB-connected hard drive. It took about 34 minutes for it to do the default install plus the webserving option. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
