Installing Fedora Core 3 from the hard disk
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Wed Feb 9 03:40:15 UTC 2005
mohamed hagag wrote:
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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 .
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> all U want to start installing the fedora core 3 distro from
> Your hard disk :
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> 1. FAT formated Floppy .
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> 2. Fedora Core 3 " FC3 " ISO Images .
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> 3. Prepartitioned HDD with the next Specs .
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> |--- 8 - 10 GB drive for root file system .
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> |--- 512 - 1024 MB drive for sawp space .
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> 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
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> 5. rawritewin.exe // get it from here .
> http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/dosutils/rawwritewin.exe
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> 6. use "rawritewin.exe" to make the boot disk from "hd_grub.img" .
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> 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.
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> 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 .
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> 9. Edit menu.lst on the boot floppy that You have made to be like
> this :
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> timeout 100 # time befor auto boot
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> default 0 # defualt selection
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> fallback 1 # i don't know
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> title Fedora Install # main selection
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> 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 "
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> 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
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> initrd /fc3/img/initrd.img # the path to the initrd.img
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> 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.
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> for any informations Contact Me By Email or Messanger :
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> mohamed_hagag1981 at yahoo
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> mohamed_hagag1981 at hotmail
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> mohamed_hagag "at" yalla "dot" com
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Neat! Thanks for sharing your approach, Mohamed
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