On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Mike Williams <dmikewilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I've found that upgrading Fedora-14 to Fedora-15 has been very simple, >> with no problems at all, even though I am keeping the same /home >> partition, >> which has caused problems (mainly with KDE) in previous upgrades. >> > One thing that has been known to cause problems is the contents of old > .something directories, there are lots of them and their contents change > from time to time in ways that break things. I've started moving them all > out of the way before an install. I put all of the .something dirs in > ~/old_dot_dirs and let the install create new ones. > >> >> However, I had one problem trying to do a hard disk upgrade >> on a machine with no internet access, but running Fedora-14. >> I copied Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso to / (/dev/sda5) via a USB stick, >> and copied isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img to / >> (after "mount -o loop"). >> >> Then I re-booted with the grub stanza >> ------------------------- >> title Fedora 15 install >> root (hd0,4) >> kernel /vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda5:/Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso >> initrd /initrd.img >> ------------------------- >> > I just did a hd install myself and did it a little differently, in my case > it did find everything needed for the install. I also installed the new > vmlinuz and initrd in a subdirectory of /boot but that isn't relevant here > so we can skip those differences. > Here is what was different for my config: > 1. created a directory named images at the same level as the DVD.iso > 2. copied install.img from /images of the iso to /images on the hard disk > (so on the install disk there was /Fedora...DVD.iso and a directory > named /images > with the install.img file copied from the mounted DVD.iso) > > 3. The last entry of the line with the repo info in grub.conf only contained > the *path* to > the iso *not* the name of the file. In your case, I think that this > would have worked: > kernel /vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda5:/ > Mike > > -- > 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 > > I've done hard disk installs before. But this time I hit a bump in the road. I downloaded Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso and Fedora-15-i386-CHECKSUM. Following the instructions in the Installation Guide, I verified the CHECKSUM and the iso. Next I mounted the .iso file. However the images directory does not contain install.img. It contains a TRANS.TBL file and a pxeboot directory. Just to be sure, I also downloaded Fedora-15-i686-Live-Desktop.iso and the CHECKSUM file and repeated the steps above with the same results. What's wrong here? Frank -- 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
