On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:04 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I would try installing Fedora 9. Unfortunately, my laptop > has no optical drive. > I made a bootable USB stick, and like I said, I manage to boot from > it, but the fonts are corrupt. > Still, I can move to text mode (say ctrl-alt-f1) and use the Live > version quite well. > > Since I have Vista, I thought I might have an easier way of installing > Fedora without having a DVD. I thought of downloading the ISO and then > looking for a boot loader or something of that sort that can "boot" > from an .iso file (on a windows partition.) > I know one can mount an .iso on linux to a directory, so I see no > reason why a boot loader could not do something like that as well. Because it's a completely different situation. You're asking for the boot loader to understand the Windows filesystem so it can find the iso file. > However, I did not manage to find something to allow me to do that. > Looking on google leads to all kind of "hints" that it is possible to > somehow install fedora using the DVD .iso (on the Vista partition) or > from the Live CD on a USB stick (without being connected to the > internet), but nothing explicit. Anyone has experience with it? Also, > I hope Fedora 9 installation will make it easy to create a new > partition for it (or maybe I should first deal with using gparted to > prepare a partition properly)... Have you read the Fedora Installation Guide? There's a section specifically about installing from USB media: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html#id325326 poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
