FC3 HD Install Procedure ?

Kevin Freeman kfreem02 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 16 06:18:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 12:58 +0900, Mitsuho Iizuka wrote:
> From: Kevin Freeman <kfreem02 at comcast.net>
> > Here is how to set up a HD install.  First, create a temporary mount
> > point:
> >     mkdir /mnt/tmp.  Then, mount the DVD image:
> >     mount -o loop /partition2_name/FC3-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/tmp
> > As root, create an installer directory:
> >     mkdir /boot/installer
> > Copy install image to /boot:
> > 
> > cp /mnt/tmp/isolinux/vmlinuz /mnt/tmp/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/installer
> 
> Thank you very much. It seems this is what I want to know. Although is
> it available to use 4 CD-ROM iso image files instead ? DVD img file is
> too huge to download completely without fail by wget here. So could
> you know any instruction to download one huge file into 4-5 segment
> separately?  Or with 4 times mount iso images and some modification,
> can I obtain 1 HDD FC3 installer ? How can I ?

CD images work just as well.  Just download them all to the same
directory and do not rename them.  You will find the files needed for
the installer on CD 1.  The rest of the process works as described
above.

Kevin Freeman




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