On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Mikkel wrote: > >>> But will it then be able to see the USB stick, >>> in order to copy the Fedora-12 files to the hard disk? >>> >>> Otherwise the exercise seems pointless, >>> as one might as well have copied the ISO file to the hard disk. >>> >>> >> Once the kernel boots, it will see the USB drive as long as the USB >> and USB storage modules are build into initrd.img. Once the kernel >> and the initial ramdisk are loaded, you are no longer using the BIOS >> for access. > > But if I click on "Install on Hard Disk", > won't it look on the hard disk where vmlinuz and initrd have been copied > for the data to download? They are copied into ram on boot, not put into the hard disk. If it works correctly it should look for the data on the usb stick. If it does not you are given the option of downloading the installation files from the internet. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
