FC3 Installation Method dialog? install from hard drive

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Feb 1 11:48:22 UTC 2005


THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> "The Select Partition screen (Figure 3-3) applies only if you are installing from a disk partition (that is, if you selected Hard Drive in the Installation Method  dialog). This dialog allows you to name the disk partition and directory from which you are installing Red Hat Linux."
> 
> <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s...>
> 
> My dual boot system:
> 
> name    file system     contents
> -------------------------------------
> C:\     ntfs            windows 2000
> E:\     fat32           FC3-i386-DVD.iso
> hda3    ext3            fedora core 3
> 
> By burning FC3-i386-disc1.iso onto a cd-rw, from <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/>, a *minimal* install of linux is on hda3.
> 
> I didn't see an "Installation method" dialog...?

Take the file boot.iso from the images directory of your CD-RW and burn 
that to your CD-RW instead. Boot from that and you should get the 
installation method prompt.

Paul.




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