F10 Install from HD

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 11/27/2008 09:55 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/27/2008 09:29 AM, jbk wrote:
>> In the past I have made a boot disc to initiate the install from HD=20
>> on the local box. Is there a way to point grub to the boot media and=20
>> then just select that option from the boot menu? I would think you=20
>> would just copy the boot image media to a directory that grub can=20
>> point to. I might give that a try even w/o advice as the worst that=20
>> could happen is the boot would fail.
>>
>> Jim K
> Yes. You can download the isolinux kernel and initrd. Put them in your =

> /boot directory.
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/ap-medialess-inst=
all.html=20
>
>
> Booting the isolinux allows you to point to an HD or a CD/DVD.
>
I just want to follow up on this. Shortly after I posted this message, I =

downloaded isolinux vmlinux and initrd.img, set them up in /boot, and=20
started the install. The first problem is that the initial download of=20
install.img from the mirror site seemed to hang, so I restarted the=20
install process from the same mirror. The whole process took about 1:45=20
from start to finish, and I am currently running on Fedora 10. So far,=20
everything seems to work fine.

The reason for the network install is that I didn't want to make another =

boot DVD since I have the Fedora 10 Preview, and I want to test the=20
network install for my own knowledge.

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