How to install Fedora-12?

[Mikkel]

On 11/30/2009 05:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> jackson byers wrote:
> 
>>> Under Fedora-11, the USB stick is /dev/sdc ,
>>> with the Fedora-12 partition at /dev/sdc2 .
>>
>>> However, when I ran grub interactively, and set
>>
>>> grub> root (hd2,1)
>>
>>> it said that that disk did not exist.
>>> I tried hd0 to hd6 but it only found
>>> my 2 SCSI disks at hd0 and hd1 .
>>
>>> It seems that grub does not necessarily see a USB disk,
>>> even if Fedora can see it.
>>
>> Yes, exactly the point of my earlier reply.
>>
>> If you 'cp' or 'mv'  the vmlinuz and initrd.img to
>> your internal disks, then grub can find them.
> 
> But will it then be able to see the USB stick,
> in order to copy the Fedora-12 files to the hard disk?
> 
> Otherwise the exercise seems pointless,
> as one might as well have copied the ISO file to the hard disk.
> 
> 
Once the kernel boots, it will see the USB drive as long as the USB
and USB storage modules are build into initrd.img. Once the kernel
and the initial ramdisk are loaded, you are no longer using the BIOS
for access.

Mikkel
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