On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > See, the problem we solved in RC5 only came when you wrote the installer > to USB with l-i-t-d *and then used it to upgrade an F15 system*. The > problem was that anaconda doesn't filter out the USB key it's installing > from as a potential bootloader installation target, and it orders the > preferred bootloader target disks in the order they're presented by the > BIOS - and when you boot from a USB stick, the BIOS presents it as the Wow - OK! I decided to try another tack this evening on my test machine which "was" running F15 - I placed the F16 install iso on a partition which would not be touched - and loop mounted it - then pulled vmlinuz and initrd.img into /boot, and made a new stanza in /boot/grub/grub.conf (another technique I have used for years). It booted into the installer just fine - but here is the catch/snag - instead of being able to point the install to using the iso on the unused partition it asks for a network location for the repos -but I could not get it to use the local iso! Maybe I am being dumb or is this something that can't be done with F16 installs? Now the install is off and running but of course will take a lot longer than using the local iso for the packages - but of course I have now formatted the root partition so I can't go back to the start point! Have I done something dumb here? Or have I missed something in getting an install to run off my HD? -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
