where is the rescue function in the fedora 11 dvd installer

vitalstrike82 · 06-20-2009, 08:53 AM

Greetings,

i have 2 OS, fedora and slackware in my machine.

Currently i'm able to boot slackware only in my machine. I want to set the grub to allow me to choose whether to run slackware or fedora.

I ask and check around, it states that to run the rescue function, insert the installaton media and select the rescue mode.

However in my dvd, it list only these modes:

Boot
Verify and Bot
Memory Test
Boot from local drive.

Does any one knows how to go into resuce mode for fedora 11?

thanks

jsteel · 06-21-2009, 04:07 AM

You should be able to configure GRUB from your Slackware installation. I don't see the need to boot from a Live CD.

You would need to add an entry for Fedora in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file (or similar location).

John VV · 06-21-2009, 01:22 PM

the rescue function is not on the live cd ( no space for it ) it is on the full install dvd

just add the second boot partition for fedora to slack's menue.lst

-- something like this----( this is for my cent install on fedoras grub.conf )
title CentOS_5.3
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

you will need to change (hd1,0) to reflect your system.

ezrider · 06-21-2009, 07:00 PM

I just upgraded to FC11 over the web. How can I create a bootable disk image of my FC11 installation (a dvd of just the OS, not my /home files) so I could reinstall my same FC11 without a web connection?

-- ezrider

rylan76 · 06-24-2009, 07:43 AM

That's what the full install CDs or DVD is for... sure you can just burn your entire filesystem to a disk, but how are you going to boot a system off that? There are ways, but IMO the simplest is to just get a full distribution of Fedora in the first place.

jsteel · 06-24-2009, 08:06 AM

ezrider,

You could take an image of the partition that it is installed to, assuming that /home/ is on another partition. At a later date you could restore the image. I use Partimage. For me it takes about 10 minutes to create the image on my USB hard drive and 3 minutes to restore it.