I really hate it when the assumption that I
am stupid gets in the way of communication.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Michael,
Your responses have me more and more confused as to exactly
what you are trying to do:
Install F16.
My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
I copied FC13's vmlinuz to a hard drive and
tried again with the grub command line.
I have F14 installed, but F13 is the most recent DVD I can find.
why are you booting from F13 installation disk if you have F14 installed?
why do you need to find the F14 DVD?
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Michael,
did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
Yes. See my previous reply.
I've done some *experimenting* since.
My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
*Emphasis* added.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Does this mean:
--you do not have F13 installed?
--your F14 install is somehow broken?
It means that I have precisely one install disk that I can boot.
'Tisn't one I want.
What version of installed-fedora are you operating from?
F14.
What version of fedora is the iso you are extracting from?
F16.
the hdinstall, as per Horsley, and as per fedoraproject:
is meant to operate from an already existing fedora system,
which you don't seem to have.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
My machine is 32 bit. Its cpu is a pentium 4.
[hennebry@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Nov 23
13:39:51 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Chapter 12. Installing Without Media
12.1. Retrieving Boot Files
12.2. Editing the GRUB Configuration
12.3. Booting to Installation
Linux Required
This procedure assumes you are already using Fedora or another relatively modern >Linux distribution, and the GRUB boot loader. It also assumes you are a somewhat >experienced Linux user.
This section discusses how to install Fedora on your system without making any >additional physical media. Instead, you can use your existing GRUB boot loader to start >the installation program
Note:" without making any additional physical media", i.e, no DVD, just the iso
Note: "use your existing GRUB boot loader"
It assumes that I have grub2. I don't.
That is why I didn't use it.
I did try the prescribed minimal CD.
From another thread:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive.
It doesn't work.
The boot menu asks me to install or troubleshoot.
Hitting enter for install results in lots of text
scrolling off the page followed by catatonia.
The first time, the last line was incomplete.
The next time I used
linux ks=http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/anaconda-ks.cfg
The last line before catatonia included something like "end of dump".
The CD is not bad.
It's an exact copy of the iso from which it was made.
I read it back and did a diff to make sure.
The iso's sha256sum is
a4a7cc83163a2cecf1420c64d48123d0887e165aa17a72b8920f8d70bf003a65 .
How do I debug this?
As you can see from the date, this is getting a bit frustrating.
--
Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily
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