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== USB Installation ==
== USB Installation ==
It is possible to start an installation of Fedora 21 Alpha with out going through the steps of setting up a PXE server and rather initiating the installation through a USB drive formatted appropriately. To begin you will need the ISO.
It is possible to start an installation of Fedora 21 Alpha with out going through the steps of setting up a PXE server and rather initiating the installation through a USB drive formatted appropriately. You can create this yourself using the provided installation media, or you can use the prepared image:


wget FIXME
Copy the USB image to your media, you will need at least a 512M USB stick.


format the USB to use a GPT partition, with the first partition being 100M and formatted as vfat. the second using the remaining space (used 2GB USB) and ext4.
MEDIA= # location of your USB device
xzcat Fedora_21_Alpha_Installer.img.xz | sudo dd of=$MEDIA


copy the EFI directory from the ISO to the vfat partition
Insert the USB device into the bottom port located at the back of the Mustang board (below the network port), power on the machine an interrupt the boot, chooseing the 'shell' option. Once at the EFI shell:


edit grub.conf, change inst.stage2 to inst.repo  (FIXME - ?)
FS0:\EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.efi
 
This will boot the Fedora 21 Alpha installer, choose either VNC or Text installation.

Revision as of 21:47, 20 October 2014

Fedora 21 Alpha for AArch64

Download the disk image

wget http://armpkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/21_Alpha_RC1/Server/aarch64/iso/Fedora-Server-DVD-aarch64-21_Alpha.iso

For the Applied Micro Mustang (X-Gene)

Network Installation

USB Installation

It is possible to start an installation of Fedora 21 Alpha with out going through the steps of setting up a PXE server and rather initiating the installation through a USB drive formatted appropriately. You can create this yourself using the provided installation media, or you can use the prepared image:

Copy the USB image to your media, you will need at least a 512M USB stick.

MEDIA= # location of your USB device xzcat Fedora_21_Alpha_Installer.img.xz | sudo dd of=$MEDIA

Insert the USB device into the bottom port located at the back of the Mustang board (below the network port), power on the machine an interrupt the boot, chooseing the 'shell' option. Once at the EFI shell: 

FS0:\EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.efi

This will boot the Fedora 21 Alpha installer, choose either VNC or Text installation.

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