Fwd: Re: Installing Fedora from ISO Images - Question again

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It seems that you find it so easy that you which to get things complicated
 I would also advise you, either to manage burning your images or buying them
Once burned it takes 10 min to install the minimum
good luck
Arkel

Le Vendredi 2 Janvier 2004 19:10, Fritz Whittington a écrit :
> On or about 2004-01-02 11:29, Barry Yu whipped out a trusty #2 pencil
>
> and scribbled:
> > I am very musch interested that how you can load the Mandrake into a
> > laptop without both floppy drive and cdrom (If I understand your
> > laptop equipped devices correctly), would you care to share?
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >---------------
> >
> > david.hunt.linux at comcast.net wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 01 January 2004 04:15, David Hunt wrote:
> >>>> I am currently running Windows XP / Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron
> >>>> 5100.
> >>
> >> I
> >>
> >>>> was planning on upgrading to Mandrake 9.2 (mainly for ACPI) and
> >>>> decided
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >>>> give Fedora a try. Well that's the preample. But, here is the catch. I
> >>>> didn't pay for the external floppy drive, or a CD writer. So, I've
> >>>> downloaded the ISO images, I have verified the MD5SUM, I can even
> >>>> mount
> >>
> >> the
> >>
> >>>> images and view the files inside. But as far as I can tell, without
> >>
> >> writing
> >>
> >>>> the images to a CD, it appears that I can't do anything usefull with
> >>
> >> them.
> >>
> >>>> It seems like it should be possible to mount the images during the
> >>
> >> install
> >>
> >>>> process, instead of the CD-ROM. Has anyone ever tried that?
> >>>> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:59:14 Mihai Maties wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Boot up Mandrake 9.1 and then issue the commands:
> >>>
> >>> mount /first/fedora/iso/image.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop
> >>> mount /mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk.img /mnt/floppy -o loop
> >>> mkdir /boot/fedora
> >>> cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /boot/fedora
> >>> cp /mnt/floppy/initrd.img /boot/fedora
> >>>
> >>> now add the following lines to your grub.conf file:
> >>>
> >>> title - Install Fedora Core 1 -
> >>> root (hd0,1)
> >>> kernel /boot/fedora/vmlinuz
> >>> initrd /boot/fedora/initrd.img
> >>>
> >>> Pay attention to the "root (hd0,1)" part and change it to match the
> >>
> >> "root..."
> >>
> >>> part from the Mandrake installation.
> >>>
> >>> That's it, now reboot your computer and select "Install Fedora Core
> >>> 1" from
> >>> Grub's menu. After a few dialogs you will be asked to enter the path
> >>> to the
> >>> Fedora Core iso images so make sure you'll remember it. Also note
> >>> that the
> >>> iso images cannot be loaded from a NTFS partition ( if you have the
> >>> images
> >>
> >> on
> >>
> >>> a Windows partition move them to one of Mandrake's partitions).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Mihai
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for all of the help. This was my first post to a
> >> Linux
> >> mailing list, and the response was great. Of course, best of all, it
> >> solved
> >> my problem. I'm a little confused as to how to respond to these
> >> emails. It
> >> is not obvious that this will end up in the right place. But, here it
> >> goes.
> >>
> >> I tried the advice of Mihai (included above), since it was the
> >> closest to
> >> how I was thinking it would be done. For my specific setup, there
> >> were only
> >> a few deviations.
> >>
> >> 1.I have no floppy drive, so there was no /mnt/floppy directory.
> >> Without a
> >> pre-existing directory the mount command didn't work. After simply
> >> adding
> >> the empty directory, the mount command worked fine.
> >>
> >> 2. I currently use LILO, but making the changes to /etc/lilo.conf was
> >> easy
> >> enough. I don't know if it is required, but with LILO, it is
> >> necessary to
> >> type in "lilo" at the command prompt, after changing the lilo.conf
> >> file, for
> >> the changes to actually take effect.
> >>
> >> 3. One more thing. The .ISO files have to be in the root "/"
> >> directory of
> >> the partition in which they are located. When they were in a lower level
> >> directory, the installer wouldn't find them.
> >>
> >> So, end result was exactly what I was looking for. The install from
> >> the ISO
> >> files appeared to be working. Unfortunately the work isn't done.
> >> During the
> >> install everything crashed. There was a big list of failures, having
> >> to do
> >> with dev/hd issues (write permissions, formatting?). I didn't copy
> >> them down
> >> as I should have, and can't get now because Mandrake was destroyed in
> >> the
> >> process. I will be re-loading Mandrake, and following the process
> >> again. I
> >> will try to get better failure information, and verify that it didn't
> >> have
> >> anything to do with the install process. The ISO files were on a FAT32
> >> partition (not NTFS, but also not a Linux partition), which may have had
> >> something to do with it.
>
> I think the OP mentions he doesn't have a floppy or a CD *writer*, not
> that he didn't have a CD-ROM drive.  But I admit it's a little unclear.
>
> If he does have a CD-ROM drive, I think he would be best advised to go
> to one of the places on the Net which will mail you the 3 CDs for less
> than $5.   That's what I did, because even though I have a CD burner, I
> have a 56k dialup connection :-( and downloading them would have taken
> longer than the US mail...

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