I am trying to use an eide 10GB hdd in place of a DVD to install fc6. I have copied the DVD iso and mounted it, then used dd to write the bootdisk.img to the primary bootable partition which is /dev/hdc1 on this interface. My goal is to setup the 10GB drive as an install media, and install FC6 to the primary 60GB hdd on /dev/hda interface. I have used fdisk to partition the 10GB drive with a 250MB primary partition #1, also I have a second /dev/hdc2 set to swap of 250MB, and an extended #3, then a /dev/hdc5 with 8GB or so which I have copied the iso's, and have successfully mounted the DVD version with mount -0 loop -t iso9660 to a directory on the same partition. Next, I used dd to copy the bootdisk.img to /dev/hdc1 which has been formated with ext3 and vfat with the same failure. When I try to boot the /dev/hdc disk the screen goes blank, then reboots the machine without bringing it down, more like a power fail. There is no BIOS text written to the screen stating there is no bootable media as I would expect, so I think it tries to boot, then dies before anything can be written to the screen. Can anyone point me to a howto or other doc that discusses this somewhat unusual install method? Thanks
