On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 6:54 AM -0500 6/1/05, Basil Copeland wrote: > >On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson <johnsonsamc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from > >> the disc, and then what? > >> > >> Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good > >> idea... How does that work? > >> > > > >You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. > >The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, > >and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll > >need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or > >remotely. > > I tried to do a hard drive install, and ended up burning CDs anyway. > Although one is supposed to be able to put the .iso's on a FAT32 volume, > the installer seems only to allow paths starting with, umm, some unix path > like /foo/bar/, as anything I typed had that path prefixed to it in the > error message, so it seems to be impossible to refer to my C: drive. The installer asks for a partition name and directory. So if you dumped the ISO images into C:\Fedora and C: was known to Linux as /dev/hda1, you'd tell the installer to find the ISO images on /dev/hda1 in directory /Fedora. Simple. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
