Install without CD-ROM

[Gunnar Kramm]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:10:51PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 09:13 -0800, Gunnar Kramm wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:52:40AM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> > > Abhik Das wrote:
> > > >How can we install Fedora core 2 / 3 without burning iso images to CD?
> > > 
> > > I guess you simply want to avoid downloading 2-3GB of ISO images?
> > > 
> >  
> > [ snip ]
> > 
> > Actually there is a way you can install Fedora core without a boot CD or a
> > boot USB device.
> > 
> > First you will need a copy of the boot.iso.
> > then mount it
> > (as root)
> > mount -o loop boot.iso /mnt
> 
> (snip)
> 
> This is indeed a useful method but it only works if you can boot into a
> Linux environment in the first place (e.g. using an existing
> installation); it doesn't help a first-time installer (but then neither
> did my earlier suggestion of doing an NFS install).
> 
> Paul.

Agreed, I was assuming the OP was starting with an existing Linux install.
Which may or may not be the case.
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