On 9/25/2013 7:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > Several of my machies have SATA hot swap ports. > These make it easy to use smaller drives as backup media. > > When RC4 came out I installed it on a 4 TB drive using an > older E6550 machine. At my leisure I added lots of apps > and libs that I normally use. > > Then I slipped that drive in my omen.com server and changed > the boot order to boot that drive. I changed hostname and > domainname, restored some of my control files, and omen.com > was back on the air relatively quickly. > > I was fortunate this procedure worked as netinst was unable to > install RC4 while running on the server. > > This "trick" depends on Fedora apparently being able to make modest > adjustments to the machine environment on boot up. > > Is this a valid procedure? > A "valid procedure?" Hmm.. Sounds like a eclectic procedure and situation to me. -- David -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
