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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")
From:       Bill Davidsen <davidsen () tmr ! com>
Date:       2014-03-28 18:46:39
Message-ID: 5335C38F.2090808 () tmr ! com
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Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:40:36 +0000
> Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> Meantime, for further Fedora eval, it's going in a VirtualBox. Sad,
>> but that's all it seems able to handle.
>
> Actually, that's the key to installing on disk in a sensibly
> created partition layout: Install in a virtual machine 1st,
> then copy the VM disk image to a real disk and fiddle with
> the grub config and fstab. I install that way all the time
> now since the new installer appeared, and find it actually
> make things lots more convenient since I don't have to have
> the machine down while I'm doing the install.
>
Because of the write speed of USB sticks, I find that's a good way to do a 
portable install as well, create a drive image and install on that. When done, 
then you just copy to the USB stick.

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