Installing Fedora from ISO Images

[Prakash Rao]

Hi David,

You do not need a CD Writer or a floppy drive to install Fedora from the ISO images.

Here's how to install directory from your XP partition.
1. Copy the images to a directory under root (say C:\images).
2. Copy dosutils directory from the first ISO image into your root (C:\dosutils).  You can use some utility like WinRAR to extract just this directory from the ISO or download the whole directory from the Fedora FTP site.
3. Restart your machine and boot into DOS.
4. Change directory to C:\dosutils and type autoboot.
5. When the installer asked for type of installation, select Harddrive and just point to your images directory as /images.

If you'd prefer to mount the images & install from inside your existing Mandrake setup, guess the other replies to your post have already covered it.

HTH,
Prakash

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Hunt 
  To: fedora-list at redhat.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:15 PM
  Subject: Installing Fedora from ISO Images


  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? 

  Thanks, 

  David Hunt
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