On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:35:54 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> I got the rescuecd as suggested and booted from it on my laptop that >> has with WinXP and a free partition to be used for FC7. It lists >> some options, but none for installing a new system. The option is >> "Install or Upgrade an existing system". I do not have an existing >> system that I want to upgrade. How do I proceed? > > You want to read that as (Install) or (Upgrade an existing system) > rather than (Install or Upgrade) an existing system. > > The installation guide may help (though I can't say for sure since I > haven't read it recently): > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/ > > The section "Beginning the Installation" starts at: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/ch-beginninginstallation.html > [...] For ftp or http, it says to supply it with "... the directory where the installation files reside". Is the correct directory: 1. the directory that contains the DVD iso file ? 2. releases/7/Fedora/os/ ? 3. releases/7/Fedora/os/Fedora/ ? 4. perhaps something under the "everything" sub-tree ? 5. something else ? My best guess is 2, but with a low confidence level. Thanks for your help. Mike.