Phil wrote:
On 8/2/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:55 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
I have a workaround to install Fedora 7 if I can get the
isos on CDs. I can only find DVD iso for Fedora 7.
You can install f7 from the Fedora 7 Live CD.
I would think I'm not the only person who uses Fedora
who does not have a DVD reader/burner.
Is it now the policy of the Fedora Project to only
make DVD iso available for download?
Darlene Wallach
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here is how you can install Fedora without a DVD player...
Download the FC7 DVD iso.... extract the boot.iso from the DVD iso... (use
your tools of choice)
Create an nfs share on another system and put the FC7 DVD iso in that share.
Burn the boot.iso to a cdrom
boot the system you want to install FC7 on from the cd with the boot.isoimage.
When you are asked how you want to install choose "NFS share"
Enter the ip address and directory name... and voila... network install of
FEDORA and you did not have to expand the ISO to do it.
Pretty cool!
Phil,
Thank you for your excellent advice. However, I cannot
boot from CD, my BIOS only allows me to boot from an
IDE CD-ROM and I have a SCSI CD-ROM.
However, there is another workaround that Conor Daly
sent me when I was trying to install FC 3 and had the
same problem - not being able to boot from CD:
1. copy and rename the following files to /boot
initrd.img
vmlinuz
2. modify grub.conf
title Fedora 7 install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-f7-install ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-f7-install.img
I have been exchanging email with John Reiser regarding
this same issue and I might have made a mistake in
grub.conf, I might have to correct it and add "askmethod"
after after vmlinuz:
title Fedora 7 install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-f7-install askmethod
initrd /initrd-f7-install.img
btw, if you post your replies to the bottom or at
least interspersed in the email. It makes it easier
for people to follow the conversation in a chronological
order.
Please consider posting your replies at the bottom.
Thank you,
Darlene Wallach
