On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:30 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Thinking about it I am now wondering if I should have added "repo=hd:device" to the grub stanza kernel line..... -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
