Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Timothy Murphy]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> if I follow what's going on, I think there are two alternatives.  Both
> involve repartitioning the disk in a separate step.
> 
> (1) You can do a hard disk install.  You need to partition the disk so
> there is a partition you won't reformat (e.g. a separate /home).  Then
> copy the ISOs to a directory there and boot off the CD.  (I vaguely
> remember that this was discussed but I don't recall why you couldn't do
> it.)
> 
> (2) I read somewhere that you could create a partition on the disk and
> install the boot.iso image.  You could then boot from that hard disk
> partition with the network card plugged in and do a network install.  Now,
> I don't know the details of making it work, but maybe soemone else on the
> list does?
> 
> If both of these alternatives have been considered and rejected, then
> sorry to interrupt.

Both these solutions seem to assume that
you are already running an OS on the machine.
In my case I had just installed a new hard drive,
so there was nothing on the disk.

As I explained, my solution was to install SuSE-8.0,
and then install Fedora-3 from the hard disk.

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