FC4 on a harddisk --> installation ??

Peter Volsted pvolsted at image.dk
Thu Jun 16 08:54:14 UTC 2005


hi

 > VJ wrote:
> I tried this method also, but found out that it requires the .iso's to
> be put on a FAT/VFAT partition only. I had placed it on an xfs
> partition and installer simply could not mount it. I tried even
> passing xfs as parameter to kernel during the boot of cd made from
> 'boot.iso' but it did not work. So finally I had to use a FAT
> partition.
> 
> I wonder why installer cannot see xfs partitions to pickup .iso images
> during install.
> 
According to 
<http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html> 
the partition holding the isos must be formatted with ext2, ext3 or Vfat.


-- 
good luck

     peter




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