Installing Fedora from ISO Images - Question again

[Barry Yu]

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?

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david.hunt.linux at comcast.net wrote:

>>On Thursday 01 January 2004 04:15, David Hunt wrote:
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>>>I am currently running Windows XP / Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 5100.
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>>>was planning on upgrading to Mandrake 9.2 (mainly for ACPI) and decided
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>to
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>>>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
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>the
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>>>images and view the files inside. But as far as I can tell, without
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>writing
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>>>the images to a CD, it appears that I can't do anything usefull with
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>them.
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>>>It seems like it should be possible to mount the images during the
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>install
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>>>process, instead of the CD-ROM. Has anyone ever tried that?
>>>On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:59:14 Mihai Maties wrote:
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>>Boot up Mandrake 9.1 and then issue the commands:
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>>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
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>>now add the following lines to your grub.conf file:
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>>title - Install Fedora Core 1 -
>>root (hd0,1)
>>kernel /boot/fedora/vmlinuz
>>initrd /boot/fedora/initrd.img
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>>Pay attention to the "root (hd0,1)" part and change it to match the
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>"root..."
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>>part from the Mandrake installation.
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>>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
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>>a Windows partition move them to one of Mandrake's partitions).
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>>Mihai
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Thanks.
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