Installing Fedora Core 3 from the hard disk

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Mr. MMH wrote:

>I was Have problems Installing Fedora from hard i want to do that Because I don't have any CD-ROM & I borrowed one from a frind But Many Distros can't read from it .
>
>
>all U want to start installing the fedora core 3 distro from Your hard disk :
>
>
>   1. FAT formated Floppy .
>
>   2. Fedora Core 3 " FC3 " ISO Images .
>
>   3. Prepartitioned HDD with the next Specs .
>      |--- 8 - 10 GB drive for root file system .
>      |--- 512 - 1024 MB drive for sawp space .
>
>   4. hd_grub.img boot disk img // get it from here . http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/install/images/hd_grub.img
>
>   5. rawritewin.exe // get it from here . http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/dosutils/rawwritewin.exe
>
>   6. use "rawritewin.exe" to make the boot disk from "hd_grub.img" .
>
>   7. put the "FC3" ISO Images in folder like this d:\fc3 or e:\fc3 don't put them on the drive you just made to install on it.
>
>   8. get the kernel "vmlinuz" & the ramdisk "initrd.img" from the first iso image normaly they are in "isolinux/vmlinuz" and "isolinux/initrd.img" and put them on folder like fc3/img .
>
>   9. Edit menu.lst on the boot floppy that You have made to be like this :
>
>      timeout 100 # time befor auto boot
>      default 0 # defualt selection
>      fallback 1 # i don't know
>
>      title Fedora Install # main selection
>      root (hd0,4) # change "4" to the partition holding ISO images normaly
>      c:\ = 0 , D:\ = 4 , E:\ = 5 and so on " in some cases you have to try numbers from 0 to 9 "
>      kernel /fc3/img/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram3 acpi=ht vga=788 # the path to vmlinuz "the kernel Binary" don't use drive letters .
>      automatic=method:disk
>      initrd /fc3/img/initrd.img # the path to the initrd.img
>
>  10. Reboot and boot from the Disk and when the installer ask you about the installation Method choose "Hard Drive" and choose the drive that holds the ISO images & enter the name of the folder in the blue text box.
>
>for any informations Contact Me By Email or Messanger :
>mohamed_hagag1981 at yahoo
>mohamed_hagag1981 at hotmail
>mohamed_hagag "at" yalla "dot" com
>  
>
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>
>     I was Have problems Installing Fedora from hard i want to do that
>     Because I don't have any CD-ROM & I borrowed one from a frind But
>     Many Distros can't read from it .
>
>
>
>
>       all U want to start installing the fedora core 3 distro from
>       Your hard disk :
>
>
>
>    1. FAT formated Floppy .
>
>    2. Fedora Core 3 " FC3 " ISO Images .
>
>    3. Prepartitioned HDD with the next Specs .
>       |--- 8 - 10 GB drive for root file system .
>       |--- 512 - 1024 MB drive for sawp space .
>
>    4. hd_grub.img boot disk img // get it from here .
>       http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/install/images/hd_grub.img
>
>
>    5. rawritewin.exe // get it from here .
>       http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/dosutils/rawwritewin.exe
>
>
>    6. use "rawritewin.exe" to make the boot disk from "hd_grub.img" .
>
>    7. put the "FC3" ISO Images in folder like this d:\fc3 or e:\fc3
>       don't put them on the drive you just made to install on it.
>
>    8. get the kernel "vmlinuz" & the ramdisk "initrd.img" from the
>       first iso image normaly they are in "isolinux/vmlinuz" and
>       "isolinux/initrd.img" and put them on folder like fc3/img .
>
>    9. Edit menu.lst on the boot floppy that You have made to be like
>       this :
>
>       timeout 100 # time befor auto boot
>       default 0 # defualt selection
>       fallback 1 # i don't know
>
>       title Fedora Install # main selection
>       root (hd0,4) # change "4" to the partition holding ISO images
>       normaly
>       c:\ = 0 , D:\ = 4 , E:\ = 5 and so on " in some cases you have
>       to try numbers from 0 to 9 "
>       kernel /fc3/img/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram3
>       acpi=ht vga=788 # the path to vmlinuz "the kernel Binary" don't
>       use drive letters .
>       automatic=method:disk
>       initrd /fc3/img/initrd.img # the path to the initrd.img
>
>   10. Reboot and boot from the Disk and when the installer ask you
>       about the installation Method choose "Hard Drive" and choose the
>       drive that holds the ISO images & enter the name of the folder
>       in the blue text box.
>
>
>       for any informations Contact Me By Email or Messanger :
>
> mohamed_hagag1981 at yahoo
> mohamed_hagag1981 at hotmail
> mohamed_hagag "at" yalla "dot" com