installating from iso

[Jerry Ro]

Hi,

Mmm.. If I understand correctly, I am past the stage that you referred to me
in the guide - I already have a USB stick with Live CD - I think that's what
they suggest there? I actually want to install a fedora on part of the hard
disk. But I could maybe mount the full DVD .iso using the USB stick live
version, after mounting the Vista partition which contains that ISO, and run
the installation from the mounted .iso - that's what I was trying to look
for in google. I was hoping it is possible to do that, instead of having to
boot from the full DVD version for full installation (since I dont have a
DVD or a 4GB USB stick...)

Thanks for your answer.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:04 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I thought I would try installing Fedora 9. Unfortunately, my laptop
> > has no optical drive.
> > I made a bootable USB stick, and like I said, I manage to boot from
> > it, but the fonts are corrupt.
> > Still, I can move to text mode (say ctrl-alt-f1) and use the Live
> > version quite well.
> >
> > Since I have Vista, I thought I might have an easier way of installing
> > Fedora without having a DVD. I thought of downloading the ISO and then
> > looking for a boot loader or something of that sort that can "boot"
> > from an .iso file (on a windows partition.)
> > I know one can mount an .iso on linux to a directory, so I see no
> > reason why a boot loader could not do something like that as well.
>
> Because it's a completely different situation. You're asking for the
> boot loader to understand the Windows filesystem so it can find the iso
> file.
>
> > However, I did not manage to find something to allow me to do that.
> > Looking on google leads to all kind of "hints" that it is possible to
> > somehow install fedora using the DVD .iso (on the Vista partition) or
> > from the Live CD on a USB stick (without being connected to the
> > internet), but nothing explicit. Anyone has experience with it? Also,
> > I hope Fedora 9 installation will make it easy to create a new
> > partition for it (or maybe I should first deal with using gparted to
> > prepare a partition properly)...
>
> Have you read the Fedora Installation Guide? There's a section
> specifically about installing from USB media:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html#id325326
>
> poc
>
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