install without physical media or pxe?

Michael A Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue May 15 15:01:02 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 07:46 -0700, Tom Spec wrote:
> Is it possible for me to install Fedora without DVD/CD, USB Key,
> Floppy or PXE server if I already have an existing (older) Fedora
> installation running?  
> 
> Specifically, can I download the ISOs to my HD, then somehow get grub
> to throw me into the first ISO when I boot my machine, so that I can
> then start a new installation?
> 

I've not heard of being able to boot off of an image on a hard disk.
You may be able to make a filesystem containing bootable contents that
will work though. Should be able to anyway. You could possibly make a
filesystem containing the boot.iso contents and go from there.




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