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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Hi David,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>You do not need a CD Writer or a floppy drive to
install Fedora from the ISO images.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Here's how to install directory from your XP
partition.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>1. Copy the images to a directory under root (say
C:\images).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>2. Copy dosutils directory from the first
ISO image into your root (C:\dosutils). You can use some utility like
WinRAR to extract just this directory from the ISO or download the whole
directory from the Fedora FTP site.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>3. Restart your machine and boot into
DOS.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>4. Change directory to C:\dosutils and type
autoboot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>5. </FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>When the
installer asked for type of installation, select Harddrive and just point
to your images directory as /images.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>If you'd prefer to mount the images & install
from inside your existing Mandrake setup, guess the other replies to your post
have already covered it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>HTH,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Prakash</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=david.hunt.linux@comcast.net
href="mailto:david.hunt.linux@comcast.net">David Hunt</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=fedora-list@redhat.com
href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Installing Fedora from ISO
Images</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am currently running Windows XP / Mandrake 9.1
on a Dell Inspiron 5100. I was planning on upgrading to Mandrake
9.2 (mainly for ACPI) and decided to give Fedora a try. Well that's
the preample. But, here is the catch. I didn't pay for the external floppy
drive, or a CD writer. So, I've downloaded the ISO images, I have verified the
MD5SUM, I can even mount the images and view the files inside. But as far as I
can tell, without writing the images to a CD, it appears that I can't do
anything usefull with them. It seems like it should be possible to mount the
images during the install process, instead of the CD-ROM. Has anyone ever
tried that? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Hunt</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>