F7 DVD problem -
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sun Jun 10 01:38:11 UTC 2007
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
>
> I've had some indication of success with a "hard drive" install from
> the rescue CD using a portable hard drive but now I have to "Select
> driver disk image?"
>
> I had F-7-i386-DVD.iso on the portable drive and did:
> mount F-7-i386-DVD.iso /media/PLEOMAX/f7-fs -t iso9660 -o loop
>
> and then copied the resulting set of files to another directory on the
> portable drive and am attempting to do an install from that.
>
> If I select the Fedora directory I get a long list of rpm's ...
>
> Anyway, I am stuck, not knowing what to do at this point. I either
> don't have the "driver disk image" file or don't know what to use if I
> do have it. I have run the sha1sums on the iso files and they all
> look good but I seem to be stymied at every turn.
>
> I guess I could buy a DVD drive that will write a DVD on this FC-6 box
> but even then I have little confidence in that working any better than
> one "burnt" on the Mac.
>
> None of this seems to make any sense?
>
> Any thoughts or comments appreciated.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
Bob,
I haven't installed FC7 yet, but for earlier releases I simply told the
rescue CD loader to use the iso image on the mounted disk, not via the
loop device.
Bob...
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