Gareth Marsh wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to install fedora from a hardrive using windows > (from Fedora-8-dvd-x86_64.iso). My first guess would be that you would > create a partition and then copy all of the contents of the iso (including > the bootable section) to it, restart and boot from it but I don't think > this would work. I don't think this is right. You need to say exactly what you have on your system at the moment. Assuming you just have Windows, you can download the ISO image, ie the file *.iso, to the Windows partition. But then you have to run a Linux program (anaconda) somehow to install the ISO. You can put in the DVD you have burned, and boot from it. You will be asked how you want to install, and you can then say from hard drive (one of the options). > I have already burnt the iso to dvd but am curious as to > how this could be done. This will be my first Linux install so layman's > terms please :) Gareth What you are suggesting seems rather silly on the face of it, since you could just install from the DVD. However, people quite often have problems installing from a DVD, and in that case installing from the hard disk is a good alternative. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
