Matthew Saltzman wrote: > if I follow what's going on, I think there are two alternatives. Both > involve repartitioning the disk in a separate step. > > (1) You can do a hard disk install. You need to partition the disk so > there is a partition you won't reformat (e.g. a separate /home). Then > copy the ISOs to a directory there and boot off the CD. (I vaguely > remember that this was discussed but I don't recall why you couldn't do > it.) > > (2) I read somewhere that you could create a partition on the disk and > install the boot.iso image. You could then boot from that hard disk > partition with the network card plugged in and do a network install. Now, > I don't know the details of making it work, but maybe soemone else on the > list does? > > If both of these alternatives have been considered and rejected, then > sorry to interrupt. Both these solutions seem to assume that you are already running an OS on the machine. In my case I had just installed a new hard drive, so there was nothing on the disk. As I explained, my solution was to install SuSE-8.0, and then install Fedora-3 from the hard disk. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
