en_US/other-instmethods.xml

David Nalley ke4qqq at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 23 18:13:08 UTC 2008


 en_US/other-instmethods.xml |   19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 4787c12d383f0a9c34ea9433241b31862145029c
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Sun Nov 23 13:10:38 2008 -0500

    updating content for hard drive install to other-instmethods.xml to close bz 463486

diff --git a/en_US/other-instmethods.xml b/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
index c50c83f..0ddbef1 100644
--- a/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
+++ b/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
@@ -78,11 +78,22 @@
     <para>
       Once you have booted your computer, you may use ISO image files of
       the &FED; discs to continue the installation process. The ISO
-      files must be located on a hard drive that is either internal to
-      the computer, or attached to the machine by USB. Use this option
-      to install &FC; on computers that have neither a network
-      connection nor CD or DVD drives.
+      files must be located on a hard drive that is either internal to 
+      the computer, or attached to the machine by USB. In addition the
+      <filename>install.img</filename> file from within the ISO files 
+      must be copied to a directory named 
+      <filename classname="directory">images</filename classname="directory"> 
+      Use this option to install &FC; on computers 
+      that without a network connection or CD/DVD drives.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      To extract the install.img from the iso follow the procedure:
+    </para>
+      <screen>
+	<command><![CDATA[mount -t iso9660 /path/to/Fedora10.iso /mnt/point -o loop]]></command>
+	<command><![CDATA[cp -a /mnt/point/images /path/images/]]></command>
+        <command><![CDATA[umount /mnt/point]]></command>
+      </screen>
 
     <para>
       The partition on the hard drive holding the ISO files must be





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