jackson byers wrote: > Rick, > My interpretation of what the OP is trying to do is different than yours: > He is trying to do a > "hard disk" install of f12, operating from his current fedora(f11?). That is correct. (I am the OP.) > This "hard disk" install requires having an available partition > completely separate from his current fedora. > There is no notion, afaik, of > "install a new Fedora on top of an already running Fedora" > as you put it, whatever you might mean by "on top of". > > This "hard disk" install does point to the f12 iso, > but it also requires extracting the vmlinuz, initrd.img, and install.img > from the iso, which i think requires doing the loopback mount. > The install.img is placed in a "images" directory. > There are strict requirements on where that images dir is to be placed; > I am not sure, but i think the OP did this part correctly. > Where he might be going wrong is how he interacts with Anaconda, > as I tried to explain in my earlier reply As I mentioned in a post above, this worked fine when I moved the Fedora ISO and the images directory to the top level on another partition. I'm not sure what I did wrong before. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
