Re: Question about hard disk installation

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于 2011年12月31日 11:46, Mark LaPierre 写道:
> On 12/30/2011 10:31 PM, alick wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a question about installing Fedora from hard disk.
>>
>> I downloaded a DVD iso, extract vmlinuz and initrd.img to
>> partition A, then I put iso file onto partition B.
>>
>> Since I have grub (grub1) from old version of Fedora, I can
>> use it to boot extracted vmlinuz, and start my installation.
>>
>> I already know that partition B should be ext2/3/4 or FAT, and
>> should never be formatted during installation. Now I wonder
>> what requirements should partition A have. Can partition A be
>> formatted during installation? Is it necessary A is ext3/4?
>> Is it better that A is the same as B?
>>
>> Note: yeah I indeed have installed Fedora 16. During my installation
>> partition A is a small not-used ext3 partition. The installation
>> works as expected. Now I just want to know whether partition A
>> can be say my old / partition(which will be formatted).
>>
>> Note again: this is my first post here. If this question is asked
>> and answered before, hope someone can point me there.
> 
> If all you have in this partition is the vmlinuz and initrd.img files
> you can do anything you want to the partition after you are booted into
> the system.  The vmlinuz file is uncompressed into a ramdisk on boot up
> so it is no longer needed on the HD.
> 
Thank you! This clear my doubts :)

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alick
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