Tom Horsley wrote: >> As a matter of interest, >> are there "official" instructions anywhere >> for installing a new version of Fedora on a spare partition >> of a machine already running Fedora, >> after downloading the DVD ISO to the machine? >> > > Don't know about "official". I use the hard disk install > technique which is probably documented around the web > in various places (it got simpler with the fedora 15 > dvd, since you no longer need to extract an install.img > file and put it where anaconda can find it). Here's > the /boot/grub/grub.conf entry I just used to > install f15 beta in my machine: > > title Install Fedora 15 Beta x86_64 > root (hd0,4) > kernel /boot/f15x/vmlinuz > repo=hd:LABEL=ZOOTY:/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ initrd > /boot/f15x/initrd.img > > The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz > and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on > the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ > is the directory where I saved the iso image (where > the /zooty mountpoint mounts a partition with the > label ZOOTY). Thanks, that seems very clear. I didn't know one could add a "repo=" option to the kernel line. It's surprising to me that the Fedora Installation Guide doesn't give this as a method of installation, since a significant number of people who want to upgrade must already be running Fedora or some other Unix. I've always thought the Installation Guide is slightly lacking in common sense. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
