On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:52:24 +0000 Timothy Murphy wrote: > But since there actually is a file called install.img > involved centrally in this process, > to use the term "installation image" for another file > seems bound to cause confusion. > Why not just call it the ISO file, or .iso file? I've been doing hard disk installs for quite a while now, and since fedora 10 (I think it was) you do indeed need the install.img file from the iso. Here's the procedure I have now used successfully many times: 1. Get the iso image stashed in a directory which contains no other .iso file on a partition that will survive the install. Let's use a specific example from my system. I have a external USB drive mounted at /backup with the disk label BACKUP and lots of iso images stashed in /backup/iso-images subdirectories. cd /backup/iso-images/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD/ mkdir mnt mount -o loop Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso mnt mkdir images cp mnt/images/install.img images mkdir /boot/f12 cp mnt/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/f12 cp mnt/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/f12 umount mnt rmdir mnt Now edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add an entry like this (adjusting the hd0,4 or whatever appropriately): title Install Fedora 12 x86_64 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/f12/vmlinuz repo=hd:LABEL=BACKUP:/iso-images/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD/ initrd /boot/f12/initrd.img Things to note: It is much simpler to have the install.img file extracted in the images directory next to the iso image than to provide separate boot parameters to say where it is. Using the LABEL= syntax to specify which disk seems to be essential as well, since anaconda appears to quite frequently enumerate the disks in a different order than the current installed linux does (so you may think it is /dev/sdc, but when anaconda boots, it is really /dev/sdb, then it can't find the files, etc). Now all you have to do is reboot and pick the "Install" item when it gets to grub, and off you go... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
