I have downloaded and copied Fedora-17-x86_64-netinst.iso to /dev/sda1 which is FAT partition.
I extracted vmlinuz and initrd from that iso-file and got it to grub2-menu of the old (fedora 14 i686) system, which I want to upgrade to F17 x86_64.
I can boot that vmlinuz+initrd now, but it cannot find the installation media:
How I can guide the system to find the ISO file from the FAT /dev/sda1 partition and use it to succesfull installation?
Is there some kernel parameters to be given which would do it?
repo= ***what?***
edit2:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...install-hd-x86
I have tried:
edit2:
vmlinuz inst.repo=hd:/dev/sda1:/Fedora-17-x86_64-netinst.iso
Which can start anaconda alright, goes to graphical installation but then fails to find installation media, because:
So the netinst.iso has been succesfully found and anaconda started from there, but now it should configure the FTP/HTTP repositories for the rpm-packages.
Is this somehow possible to do with netinst.iso or do I need the whole big DVD.iso? I'd rather use netinst.iso and get the packages over network, because the PC has only rather small harddisk (and no possibility to use USB-stick or DVD-disk)
I extracted vmlinuz and initrd from that iso-file and got it to grub2-menu of the old (fedora 14 i686) system, which I want to upgrade to F17 x86_64.
I can boot that vmlinuz+initrd now, but it cannot find the installation media:
Code:
dracut Warning: Couldn't mount /dev/sr0
dracut Warning: no suitable images.
dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
Dropping to debug shell.
dracut:/#Is there some kernel parameters to be given which would do it?
repo= ***what?***
edit2:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...install-hd-x86
I have tried:
edit2:
vmlinuz inst.repo=hd:/dev/sda1:/Fedora-17-x86_64-netinst.iso
Which can start anaconda alright, goes to graphical installation but then fails to find installation media, because:
Quote:
|
Missing ISO 9660 Image The installer has tried to mount the installation image, but cannot find it on the hard drive. Please copy this image to the drive and click Retry. Click Exit to abort the installation. |
Is this somehow possible to do with netinst.iso or do I need the whole big DVD.iso? I'd rather use netinst.iso and get the packages over network, because the PC has only rather small harddisk (and no possibility to use USB-stick or DVD-disk)