I am having the same problem like you - don't have neither floppy drive nor cdrom equipped in my sony notebook, but you're saying that you have xp/Mandrake 9.1 both running on your laptop, since you said don't have neither floppy drive nor cdrom,I understand in such circumstance could use LAN to copy \i386 into laptop and use winnt.exe to setup (This is how I did my XP setup in my laptop),and I tried to setup Mandrake by inserting the Mandrake cd1 into cdrom of my desktop(in same LAN with shared cdrom),I started my laptop with XP, tried to setup Mandrake under XP environement via network, the Mandrake did the autorun as I inserted it into the desktop cdrom, but when I started installation as Mandrake indicated (installation under M$ windows),the process just won't go further but just stay there without response. What way you used to install Mandrake into your laptop without floppy and cdrom? Thanks for sharing it if u would. Mihai Maties <mihai@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Thursday 01 January 2004 04:15, David Hunt wrote: >> 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? > >Boot up Mandrake 9.1 and then issue the commands: > >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 > >now add the following lines to your grub.conf file: > >title - Install Fedora Core 1 - >root (hd0,1) >kernel /boot/fedora/vmlinuz >initrd /boot/fedora/initrd.img > >Pay attention to the "root (hd0,1)" part and change it to match the "root..." >part from the Mandrake installation. > >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 on >a Windows partition move them to one of Mandrake's partitions). > > >Mihai > > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________________________ New! Unlimited Access from the Netscape Internet Service. Beta test the new Netscape Internet Service for only $1.00 per month until 3/1/04. Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Act now to get a personalized email address! Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
