On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:34:39 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry > > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> > >>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. > >>> It doesn't work. > > >>> How do I debug this? > >> Any ideas? > > From the lack of other responses, I gather the answer is just one. > As noted in another post, my memory is ok. > I really hate installing. I think you should ask your question on the test and development lists. They are more likely than users to have an answer to a question like this. And you might want to be a little more specific about what "doesn't work" means. Does the CD not boot?, Does it hang after you start?, etc. I recall putting a stanza in grub that started a dvd vmlinuz and pointed to a dvd iso on disk, and I think it worked, but that was years ago, and everything has changed so much it might not anymore. I now do minimal network installs, and upgrade them by installing packages that preupgrade dowloaded to upgrade the previous version. I leave that version as a fallback while tuning the new version. Saves a lot of stress, but means there are always at least two active versions at any given time. In the age of multi-terabyte disks, that isn't really a problem, for me at least. I have permanent partitions of things that I keep across versions, and I add links to those in the new home partition via fstab, so they are immediately there. So upgrading is mostly just a little tweaking of configurations in home. It takes a few weeks to iron out the quirks, and I'm comfortable again. The F15 changes to Gnome made my video hardware obsolete for the big two, but it still does everything I need it for, so I stopped at F15 until I either upgrade the hardware or change window managers and get comfortable with the new one. I keep looking at NixOS with its space consuming but dependency error free approach, and continuous upgrade model. It is a true rolling distribution. It uses KDE as its default desktop, and so if / when I upgrade video I'll probably give it a whirl. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
