Re: Installing fedora while running fedora?
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Rodd Clarkson wrote: Using a liveCD I can install fedora on my system while running the LiveCD. Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora? This would be a really useful feature, but I'm not seeing any information on how to do it. It should be possible using qemu like this: qemu -cdrom fedora-livecd*.iso -boot d -hda /dev/sdb in this case it expects you have completely free /dev/sdb disk as this is the easiest way. You'll have to fix grub and booting manually. Rodd Adam Pribyl -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Installing fedora while running fedora?
On 12/03/2010 12:55 AM, Rodd Clarkson wrote: Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora? This would be a really useful feature, but I'm not seeing any information on how to do it. No you can not. Live cd works in that way that all the components are uncompressed and loaded into memory as needed from the Live CD and everything is running from there. I don't particular see the usefulness in that feature care to explain what kind of behaviour you are looking for a bit more? Hypothetically you could do some *partition magic* given that you had sufficient free storage space to over install Fedora over currently running system but you would still need to *reboot* to the new install which kinda renders it pointless that is if that was what you where looking for. JBG -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Installing fedora while running fedora?
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:39:34PM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: SNIP Okay, just to clear things up, I'm not trying to install Fedora in a currently running fedora. I'm trying to install Fedora on other partitions while still running. SNIP I suggest giving febootstrap[0] a peak, I haven't actually pulled off an install like this (mainly because I haven't had a use case but now I kinda want to try it out) but I imagine its something that could be accomplished. You'll need to create a filesystem by hand and mount the other partition, but from there febootstrap should do the trick. Its not supported and its somewhat round about but something about it seems like a fun solution. Happy hacking, -AdamM [0] http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/ P.S. - febootstrap is in the official repos, so grab it via the package manager instead of mucking around with the source ;) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Installing fedora while running fedora?
Using a liveCD I can install fedora on my system while running the LiveCD. Can you do the same thing just running vanilla Fedora? This would be a really useful feature, but I'm not seeing any information on how to do it. Rodd -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
