On 9/25/2013 9:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > On 09/25/2013 05:45 PM, David wrote: >> 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. >> > My concern is wether this procedure results in a kernel that is > less optimized for the CPU it is running on than if Fedora had > been installed directly on that machine. > > I don't know enough about Fedora installation to know what, > if any, processor related optimizations are made in the install > instead of boot time. > More clearly said? Name two other people with your situation please. -- David -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
