On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:50 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > vincent fail wrote: > > I want to install fedora on a old pc that doesn't have > > an option setting in the bios that allows the pc to > > boot from a CD. > > Is any OS installed right now? All you really need to get going is the > kernel (vmlinuz) and ramdisk image (initrd.img) that can be found on the > first CD. If you can get those on the system somehow and configure a > bootloader properly, you should be good to go. > > (I've completely stopped burning disks for installations. I simply > download the DVD ISO, loopback mount it, get the kernel and ramdisk > image, and add them to my GRUB configuration.) > > -- > ======================================================================== > Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx > ======================================================================== You can also use yum or rpm to do installs like this as well, their is an example @ http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart. I built some FC4 images using Yum and some Centos 4.1 images using rpm. Regards, Ted
