I'd like to report success! Here's the details of how the system looked. An interesting point is that I was doing this on a remote machine with only a serial console (and SSH) so the kernel and GRUB options all include serial console commands. ISO used was: http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso [1] I used the /home partition as the one to install from. (The other partitions were subsequently reformatted by the Fedora 10 install.) I followed guidance in this thread as to extracting the initrd.img and vmlinuz files from the ISO in to /home/isolinux/ The filesystem layout I ended up with, which worked, looked as follows. Note that my /home partition was /dev/sda7 , which is called (hd0,6) in grub. [root@s15332110 [2] ~]# cd /home [root@s15332110 [3] home]# ls -l total 32 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:15 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-14 16:18 images drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:57 iso-images drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-20 02:17 isolinux drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-01-14 17:46 lost+found [root@s15332110 [4] home]# ls -lR .: total 32 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:15 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-14 16:18 images drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:57 iso-images drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-20 02:17 isolinux drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-01-14 17:46 lost+found ./boot: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:17 x86_64 ./boot/x86_64: total 19948 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17759712 2009-01-14 17:16 initrd.img -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2637056 2009-01-14 17:17 vmlinuz ./images: total 111840 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114405376 2008-11-20 02:17 install.img ./iso-images: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:58 Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD ./iso-images/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD: total 4078484 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4172283904 2008-11-20 02:21 Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-14 16:18 images ./iso-images/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD/images: total 111840 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114405376 2008-11-20 02:17 install.img ./isolinux: total 20756 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 2008-11-20 02:19 boot.cat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219 2008-11-20 02:17 boot.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 919 2008-11-20 02:17 general.msg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 166 2008-11-20 02:17 grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17759712 2008-11-20 02:17 initrd.img -r--r--r-- 1 root root 12331 2008-11-20 02:17 isolinux.bin -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 873 2008-11-20 02:17 isolinux.cfg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 112076 2008-11-20 02:17 memtest -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 817 2008-11-20 02:17 options.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 517 2008-11-20 02:17 param.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490 2008-11-20 02:17 rescue.msg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 514636 2008-11-20 02:17 splash.jpg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3104 2008-11-20 02:19 TRANS.TBL -r--r--r-- 1 root root 128364 2008-11-20 02:17 vesamenu.c32 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2637056 2008-11-20 02:17 vmlinuz ./lost+found: total 0 The grub /boot/grub/grub.conf was as follows (actually it had other "title" sections as well, but I only used the one given below: # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf serial --unit=0 --speed=57600 terminal --timeout=5 serial console default=0 timeout=5 title Install Fedora 10 x86_64 (from example on website) Number 3 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/x86_64/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600 repo=hd:/dev/sda7:/iso-images/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD initrd /boot/x86_64/initrd.img Links: ------ [1] http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso [2] mailto:root@s15332110 [3] mailto:root@s15332110 [4] mailto:root@s15332110 -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=319551&topic_id=64577&forum=10#forumpost319551 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame gareth.randall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
