Installing Fedora without a CDROM
Terry Polzin
fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Wed Nov 10 00:25:54 UTC 2004
On Tuesday November 9 2004 19:14, Ted Q wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a hopeful-Windows-convert-to-Fedora, and want to install Fedora onto
> my laptop. My CDROM drive is broken, but want to install it anyways,
> without having to pay the incredible $$$ required for getting a replacement
> drive ($400?!).
>
> Can anyone tell me how to create a bootable floppy disk (1.44"?), from
> which i can run the installer and install the entire distro over the
> internet? Or at least off of a usb or external cd drive? Is this even
> possible? (installation over the internet is most ideal for me). Any help
> would be appreciated...thanks!
Fedora install is too big to fit on a FD any more ;-(
There is an image called bootdisk.iso which can be copied to a USB key etc so
long as your laptop will boot USB devices, but with out a CD drive you will
also need a server for the tree NFS, FTP, HTTP are the options. But may not
be for the first time installer. The procedure isn't too much different than
the RedHat 9 days so for a documentation resource I'd look there on-line.
Good Luck
Terry
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