Fedora Users — Re: Installing FC from internet

On 11/04/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/04/06, Ali Helmy < alihelmy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/04/06, Paul Howarth < paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Christian Nolte wrote:
>>
>> There exists a nice live-cd including GParted, a graphical partition
>> manager which is capable of resizing your NTFS partitions:
>>
>> http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
>
> And that might even be useful, if someone can point to a nice
> vmlinuz/initrd combo that can be loaded with grub.

You can pull one from the boot.iso file:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk

Paul.

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The problem that you're going to run in to is that Fedora does not
include a tool to resize NTFS partitions, so before you can install
Fedora, you need to find a way to free space on your drive.

Well, thanks guys, but I have two HDDs... so I plan to keep one with the files on, and the other HDD to be formatted during installation. Then, later after installation completes, I'll format the first HDD an add it to the LV...

I'll probably go ahead with the proc tonight, wish me luck :) I'll keep you updated

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In the web-page supplied (which is VERY good, by the way) it says:
Finally to enable your Linux installer in GRUB's menu, edit the file F:\boot\grub\menu.lst adding a paragraph similar to this one:
title My Linux installer of choice
kernel   (hd0,0)/boot/your_linux_kernel_filename   distribution_specific_options


initrd   (hd0,0)/boot/your_ramdisk_filename
and the contents of the isolinux.cfg file are:
default linux
prompt 1

timeout 600

display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 options.msg
F3 general.msg
F4 param.msg
F5 rescue.msg
label linux
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img 
label text
  kernel vmlinuz

  append initrd=
initrd.img text 
label ks
  kernel vmlinuz
  append ks initrd=initrd.img
label local
  localboot 1
label memtest86
  kernel memtest
  append -
So, according to that, what should the distro specific options look like?
title My Linux installer of choice
kernel   (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz      

what_do_i_write_here?
initrd   (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
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Ok, nevermind that lads, Now I got to the point where the fedora core installer started (not anaconda, just the blue/red screen) and asked me how to install, i picked from http site, then it asked for the web-site name, and fedora directory...

I already chose a good fedora mirror to work from which is:
http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/

Ok, so the installer asks me for the web-site name and the Fedora Core Directory...
what should I enter to that?

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