in case this helps anybody

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

> How do you install from the DVD with GRML's assistance?
> 

While running GRML from the live CD, I first do

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

which already has the ext3 file system.

I then do

mkdir tmp

go inside tmp and do

mkdir hdimage

This is where I download the DVD image.  The installer seems to require this directory, unless I'm doing something wrong.

With the download completed and check via sha1sum, I unmount the partition and reboot with the FC6 rescue CD.  After the CD spins for a few seconds, I type

text askmethod speakup_synth=ltlk

and go from there.  I choose custom layout for partitioning to give partitions the mount points I want for them, and sometimes reformat the boot and root ones.  (I'm installing from the home one, and the installer has the brains not to ask about reformatting it.) I get a few more questions, then that bad boy rocks and rolls, and I finish with the steps that ensure I'll get speech on the reboot.

If that's not enough info, please let me know.

Al


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:16 AM
Subject: RE: in case this helps anybody


> How do you install from the DVD with GRML's assistance?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Albert E.
> Sten-Clanton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:27 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: in case this helps anybody
> 
> Last Tuesday, I wrote here about yum not updating.  Because I couldn't
> find or figure out how to fix this, I reinstalled FC6 from the DVD image
> last night.  It just seemed worth a shot.  It didn't help.  I tried the
> upgrade approach today, but that was a waste.  Being curious, I tried
> again installing from that hard drive partition but using the CD images
> instead of the DVD one.  Well, I got the old message about a missing
> package and the choice to reboot or retry.  So, though I know others
> have noted troubles using the DVD, it looks like my old FC6 installation
> blues arise only from the CD, whether as an image on the hard drive or
> as a burned CD.  I of course don't know if this info will help to solve
> the mystery of the disk -99 error message (which is what I got if I
> retried instead of rebooting), but I pass it along in case it might.
> 
> In the meantime, I'll likely either hang out with my good buddy GRML or
> reinstall FC6 from the DVD image with GRML's assistance.  Each has its
> pros and cons.
> 
> Al
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